Cinetic Big Ball Animal

I bought a Dyson Big Ball Animal Canister a few years back. Smart solutions at the joints, but besides that not great and pain to empty and clean. I got frustrated and threw it to the garbage, pledged not to buy anything Dyson ever and got myself a Siren with water filter.

We've had a Dyson cinetic ball for about 5 years and it's awful. I've seen posts about Miele and sebo but theirs look like it's all $1000+? Are there any decent vacuums around $600??

We just bought a Miele cat and dog canister after our dyson crapped out. It was expensive but the power head is great on the rugs and the filter system has left the air so much cleaner. It feels well made and is very easy to use. 

I won't lie we were ready to jump ship-- it was prepacked with the discontinued floor head that doesn't articulate to the floor well when the USA dealer had the parquet brush advertised in the package. My partner and I were both totally prepared to cut off our nose to spite our face and buy a sebo for way more of they didn't correct it. Miele customer service was great though and sent us the parquet head. I think they have them prepackaged in a warehouse and know it's a problem but only correct it if you call which is kinda scummy but all other things considered it's a great vaccum for not a totally unreasonable price. 

We had the dyson big ball so we are already used to that style. The miele is so much more maneuverable and a lot lighter so it's been really easy to move. We do a deep vaccum of the house once per week (couch, bed, throw blankets and all floors/rugs) and vaccum the floors & rugs once per week and it's taken half the time as before. It's really light and tiny so really easy on stairs. If you do go for a canister I recommend going for something light.  I didn't like the idea of going to a bagged model but the air quality is so worth the added price since it keeps everything contained. There is noticeably less dust in the air and everything smells cleaner.

Buy the dyson bigball. I have it. After extensive research, i opted for a wired one. Cordless looks good on paper but you are mostly going to use it on floor only. Plus it is heavy to pick up and clean curtains etc. just go and have a demo of dyson bigball.

Odd. We bought the big upright yellow pet edition Dyson in 2018 and it’s had zero problems so far. We also have two of the long cordless V6 Dyson and both of those have been great as well. Three Dyson’s running strong and powerful, and I always recommend them.