For anyone with a Crescendo - is the instruction manual easy to understand? It sounds as though if I order the Crescendo the dealer and I will be learning together as she is not familiar with that machine.

I am leaning toward ordering one as it sounds by the responses I have got that it is the better machine. (Thank you for your help) I think the laser would be good as my eyes are getting lousy as I get older. I will ask to sew on the Ellisimo Gold today so I can get a feel of what a Babylock is like. I live in a fairly small town and it is a 10 hour drive to a large city and I would like to buy from the local dealer if possible.