I could not be happier with this new Wolf.This mixer is phenomenal. I have made doughs that are wet, doughs that are sticky, and doughs that are stiff. I have made small-batch cookies that I thought might not occupy enough of the bowl to mix evenly, but nope, they mixed perfectly, almost quicker than you'd expect even at slow settings. The soft-edge scrape-the-side tool isn't needed with this mixer. This mixer just powers through, and everything comes together. The bread hook works perfectly and my breads and bagels and such have great texture. I hardly ever need to stop and scrape the side of the mixing bowl the way I did with the old KA. The Wolf's novel bowl lift mechanism takes a little getting used to (instead of using a side lever, you twist the entire bowl to raise and lower it), but I've grown to like it. The performance is wonderful, the thing looks gorgeous, I love the slow-start feature and pulse mode (no more throwing flour out of the mixing bowl onto your work surface) and you get what you pay for. It comes with two replacement knobs (black or stainless-look, to replace the original red) if you're the kind of cook who insists on a certain look in your kitchen. While pricey, the Wolf is actually a good value for high-level home use. You'd have to spend 3-5 times as much on a bakery-grade Hobart to get better performance or more capacity.I bought this beast to replace a 40-year-old Kitchen Aid that finally gave up the ghost after years of light duty when I asked it to mix stiffer doughs. This Wolf mixer, by contrast, will outlive me.Disadvantages: (1) high price, (2) fewer attachments available than a KitchenAid. There's only an optional food grinder, as far as I can find. I'd really like a powered pasta maker attachment like my KitchenAid, or even better an adapter that would fit my KA attachments onto the Wolf would be brilliant; (3) it's heavy enough that you'll be happier if you can leave it in one spot; (4) the tool attachment takes some getting used to; (5) the bowl itself is not intended for the dishwasher (but it's simple to handwash). You'll also have to keep track of time yourself, as it does not have the shutoff timer that some pro mixers have.Wolf made it affordable with an extended no-interest payment offer. If this mixer is in your budget, and you don't have to move it around from spot to spot, and you don't rely on KA attachments, you'll love its performance.Love it! I make my own dog food and this attachment is great for grinding my chicken!I bought this Wolf to replace my over 15 yr old Kitchen Aid Professional 600. Over those 15 years, I had the bearings replaced once for $150, and over a month ago, it stripped a second time, and this time thought I'd see what was available today. Watched a bunch of video reviews, read the specs and chose the Wolf. Really slick looking machine, too large to slide under the cabinets, but since it's good looking, no problem, right? Wrong. The attachments don't reach to as low as the kitchen aid and requires a lot of bowl scraping for everything; frostings, doughs, batters, you name it. Beyond that, the machine couldn't handle bagel dough. Granted, it was a stiff dough, but the KitchenAid managed 20 batches, before it got stripped. On the Wolf's first batch, it started emitting a burning smell, beeped, then shut off. I'm guessing it is an overheating auto stop. I finished the bagels by hand. A little later, I started mixing brioche dough which requires 10-12 mins mixing. The mixer started up just fine, but once the dough came together, the rotating dough's weight caused the machine to rock violently. I had to stand there holding the mixer to prevent it from toppling over, but it didn't overheat and shut off with the more pliable brioche dough.Beyond the constant scraping, the inability to manage stiff doughs, and the violent rocking of the machine with the brioche dough, the speed dial goes too fast too quickly. Speed setting 2 to 3 is the equivalent, by my eye, to the Kitchen Aid's 5. The highest setting on the Wolf, also did not seem significantly faster than the KitchenAid.I am very sad and inconvenienced to be returning this appliance and hope other shoppers find this information useful. There is no hope to be able to enjoy it for years, if in its first 4 recipes, it does not do anything I want it to do. I bought this machine on the strength of its brand but will go back to KitchenAid with the 8qt model and hope it lives up to its reviews.Update: Bought the KitchenAid 8qt model, and it does everything the Wolf couldn't do for a few hundred dollars less as well.I was looking for a mixer and watched a review of this mixer on youtube (along with reviews of many other mixers). I chose this mixer based on the review I watched because this particular mixer was able to make two loaves of bread with very little effort. The only drawback is that you have to stop the machine frequently and push the dough down from the sides of the bowl (although apparently there is a way to adjust the machine so the dough gets mixed in from the sides as well as the bottom of the bowl). This is not an issue for me because I would rather scrape the sides of the bowl frequently than have the machine break and have to replace it. I had a KitchenAid and a Bosch mixer and both only lasted a few years and were very expensive. This machine was very expensive but when using it you can tell that it will last for a very long time (it will mix bread dough easily on speed 2 or 3, no motor strain at all). I am very happy with my purchase and would definitely recommend this to others.After the dense rye dough that I mix up weekly to make a dense, seeded rye bread, made my high end KA mixer smoke (definitely not steam) and overheat, I decided that it was time to either kneed the bread by hand (very sticky dough, not fun by hand) or a new mixer. I read reviews on line and settled on the Wolf mixer. I am in love. The dough is no problem- the housing doesn't even get warm! Whipped cream is a snap and every bread and cake dough comes together so fast. Only downside is that the bowl needs to be washed by hand. Fits in a bit more space than the KA did but that is not a problem at all as I find it works better, more smoothly and is well designed.Stand mixer works great, comes with a good DC motor and the attachments are study and well crafted. The bowl/lifting mechanism I would probably question over long term use. Kitchenaid universal attachments do -NOT- work with this, and unfortunately at time of writing there is only a meat grinder attachment for it (was looking for something for shredding cheese .. but no dice) High quality, and high price for a countertop stand mixer, very solid constructionJust got this and used it today for Christmas baking, with COVID it is just me and my twin brother this year. I made some family receipes but made quarter and half batches. This machine is designed so well it can whip 2 eggs and I am sure it could do many more. I like that it can handle small batches when needed. My nEw Year's resolution will be to use this machine more! It is very powerful when making bread dough. The instructions state a few times "unplug to change attachments", I do this, with such a powerful machine you wouldn't want to get your hand caught in the atatchment.Solid stand mixer. Quiet and smooth during operation. Love it!