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Two Miele Vacuums Earn Awards
Posted by Jamie on Friday, October 17, 2008
In 2008, the Miele S5280 Callisto and the S163 Universal Upright won Consumers Digest Best Buy awards. The ranking committee was impressed with Miele’s control settings, easy-to-use wand, and overall filtration performance.

For almost fifty years, people all over the world have trusted Consumers Digest magazine to make sense of a vast array of products and services. With advertising schemes and marketing ploys, the amount of information about products is confusing and difficult to navigate. Consumers Digest helps steer people to outstanding values in the marketplace. They define a “Best Buy” as a product that offers outstanding value for its price and that merits special attention from shoppers. Each year, the designation is awarded to nationally available products.

“We are thrilled to have not one, but two vacuum cleaner products in the Best Buy family,” states Paul McCormack, Senior Marketing Manager for Miele, Inc. “We’ve always felt that our high standards of quality, performance, and filtration add up to a great value. Now there’s absolutely no doubt.”

The Callisto is the most popular of all of Miele’s canister vacuums. It offers the conveniences of the S5 Galaxy series with a few notable improvements. The electric powered SEB 217-3 Powerbrush comes standard. This is a significant improvement over the air driven brush. In addition, the Callisto comes with a powered hose. This hose gives you a wider range of more versatile attachments. When I ran this model, I found the SEB 217-3 Powerbrush was better at extracting pet hair from thicker carpet. In contrast, the electrically powered brush cleaned our high pile carpet much easier. Another noticeable upgrade with the Callisto is the handle. The Callisto is equipped with a deluxe handle. The design fits better in your hand and puts less strain on your wrist while you vacuum.

The S163 Universal Upright is great for someone living in an apartment or loft. The vacuum works well on low pile carpeting and smooth floor surfaces. You can switch from carpet to smooth flooring with a flip of a switch. The additional accessories are a crevice nozzle and an upholstery tool. The most notable quality of this vacuum is its versatility. You can operate the S163 as an upright vacuum or you can remove the wand and operate it as a hand-held vacuum to clean steps or under furniture.

The Callisto and the S163 Universal Upright are two of the best vacuums Miele has to offer. They are at different ends of the Miele spectrum, but they represent quality products that have great accessories and provide solid cleaning and filtration performance.


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