Been tired of my noisy R2D2 looking antique SS canister shop vac for awhile, but am to cheap to buy something NICE and quiet.
After reading some online reviews,  bought a Dewalt DXV10P Quiet 10gal Shop vac, when saw Lowes had it on sale for $139 a few months ago.   It's so quiet, forget to turn it off when both fans are keeping my AZ shop comfortable.  Have only owned a couple shop vacs, and performance seems about average for medium sized vac; except for very low noise level. 

No major complaints.  OEM 2"+ plastic hose is really stuff.  Use a smaller hose when attached to my various ROS.  I use it with a Dust Stopper cyclone head on 5gal bucket for my media blast cabinet successfully.   Besides sanding and blast cabinet dust control; only other duty of my shop vac is cleaning the wood/metal chips off the floor.
YMMV

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