Peter, yes I agree nice improvements. I wonder what "concentrated fast speed tumbling (normal wash tumble speed) means. I noticed they are using the terms light, normal, heavy, and extra heavy for soil level designations (like the Maytags) instead of the old terms of heavy, normal, light and maybe ex. light. I am willing to bet you (here we go again) Normal is what light used to be and heavy is what normal used to be and ex. heavy is what heavy used to be. Right there is their way of meeting higher energy savings requirements, in addition to the cold wash cycle that's become vogue on so many machinnes. There is still one very significant and important option which is missing. A stain trerat option. (This is automatically built in into the Heavy Wash cycle with it filling with warm and heating the water to hot for a somewhat profile wash to deal with various type of stains). The only cycles which use the heater to supplement temps are whites, heavy duty, allergen, and sanitize. All other cycles do not (if this machine follows Whirlpool's original pattern of what cycles automatically use the heater and those that don't use it). With the stain treat option, the heater is utilized to raise temp from warm to hot on all the above-mentioned cycles as well as adding heating option to the normal and bulky (as ell as the delicate tne wrinklefree cycles on Maytags). The heater is so important in these machines and I actually do not care how long the cycles take if I know I"m going to have a water temperature for wash that 's boosted a bit rather than simply ending up with tempid temperatures, even for hot, because of the cold machine when a load begins. Even with the Fridgemore, when using Biz, I don't have to worry about stains and inspectinhg for stains, I simply chuck everything in and add the Biz and know everything is going to come out. With stain treat, I wouldn't even have to use Biz, just a very good detergent such as Tide, Gain, or Cheer.
