Quest

bought a Sakura 747-II during Xmas, works out to be a better performer than my original (came with da house) 727.

Suction is about 20% better, noise is just a tad lower. At least I get good service from Oshawa (some technical issues that the retailer didn't even bother to help) and from Oshawa's assigned technician.

Apparently, there's a Sakura subsidiary brand called Topline that can be obtained through certain certified installer.

I chose Sakura simply because of the following reasons:

(1) parts are readily avail in lower mainland.
(2) good warranty service from Oshawa
(3) still made in Taiwan.

Reasons I didn't choose others:
(1) Pacific - don't bother, waaay overpriced and made in Sino.
(2) Crown - poor quality and design (also made in Sino, in case you wonder), but quality is amost nil. No guarantee and no aftersales service, parts have to go through retailer and cannot guarantee availability.

For Crown, it looks the same as those readily sold on ePrey, but ePrey betters them local retailers at a fraction of the price...but no quality.

Don't bother with Cypress or Athens for they no longer sell or have retailer/distributor here...and the quality is sub-par (ask me why I know).

Q.