Dryer noise
As this post came up again, I just checked the washer and dryer again.
The washer has a maximum noise level of 78dB during spin. That is about comparable with a normal washer on highest speed. Not anywhere silent, but normal.
But the dryer is labeled 82dB. That's louder than the washer. And it runs continously with no big interuption in noise during operation. For me, a continous hour of 82dB noise would turn me away from the dryer, even though it has 2 independent motors ( equals freely programmable reversing).