I started with a little Juki many years ago. I trudged through the learning curve and operated it ok for lots of years. Traded up to a Viking Husky, TOL serger, loved it, free arm, easy enough to thread, etc. But I saw a demo on the Babylock with "air" threading and fell in love! Not all have that feature, so I looked around, but went home with it! THat VIking sits in a corner now! I can switch colors in less than a minute WITHOUT tying on and dragging through the tension disks, tension sets itself, NO TENSION DISKS, switches to fancy wave stitch or rolled hem with a flick of a button. If you want easy, professional results and no stress, Babylock nailed it!