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As with anything, you get what you pay for in terms of suction/cleaning, filtering, usability, and longevity. If you like upright style riccar is the brand. If you like canister Miele is hands down the industry standard. Both brands are quiet and light (for example Kirby cleans well, but is heavy.)
We've had our first Miele for decades, from '99 to '16 then we upgraded to our second and passed our first to our daughter in college (note our first has been maintained and wear and tear parts fixed over the decades, but it still cleans great!). We upgraded to a new one when we got a new house as a move in gift to ourselves.
We just got last year the Miele triflex upright battery. I love it, as it suction power is great but it's versatility is AMAZING! First as a battery tool, it's grab and go. It hangs in the closet and grabbing and doing our high traffic first floor areas is now part of my morning ritual. Carpets never looked cleaner. It also has 'self adjusts' so I can do carpets, to hard surface, to area rug/water mats with out changing out heads, etc... I guess the key to clean carpets is vacuuming every day, and I never realized how much I don't like plugging the vacuum in... prob just me. Caveat with Triflex, (1) it's best for smaller house, (2) as a bag less with a small canister, you do have to be a little techy to maintain/clean the filter.
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