After I was very pleased with washing machines AEG for decades (my previous comparison device reviewed here for Samsung machine is an AEG Lavamat), I was very curious to see how compared to cutting a Samsung device.
With a current regular price of just 1,200 euros, the device is about twice as expensive as the new, very good Lavamat AEG (at the moment for 519 Euro available here on Amazon), so the expectations were high, of course.
The first impression:
The machine works through the large "porthole" quite powerful, has 60 x 60 x 85 cm but standard dimensions.
The slightly enlarged opening is especially for large laundry items such as bedding, the Not willing to agglomerate in the drum, very practical, but the size of the difference is in standard dimension of the machine itself, of course not.
First offense, the hose (front mounted rear left top of the machine) is extremely short with 135 cm.
Who has a small sink and the machine can make immediate right next to it, is just so out but in the bathroom of a normal apartment you usually just not a choice on which side of the sink you can install a washing machine and with me, where the machine while also stands right next to the sink, but may be only left them due to space constraints and needs to be rotated 90 degrees, you have the problem, first having to buy another tube itself.
That equipment manufacturers in the four-digit Euro range skimp on accessories such as penny sufficiently long cables and hoses more and more to death, is a nuisance that does not just takes me in advance for the producer.
In my AEGs hoses, incidentally, were always long enough.
In my device the lint does not rule (called "foreign body flap") and was fixed by me with a magnet.
Now I have to say that I can test the device;
as a "normal" buyers could complain about warranty / guarantee such damage naturally.
Nevertheless, the quality control should still be done in the factory and not at the customer and even if such damage should be remedied through the guarantee alone is the trouble and expense (one must usually sacrifice a vacation day for a repair or replacement) unpleasant.
Also not optimal:
The door that you should leave at washing after washing so open to dry and ventilate the appliance automatically jumps to the stop at an angle more than 90 ° was on (the machine of course, precisely aligned with a spirit level, it is therefore clearly on the construction of the door).
Who has a correspondingly large bathroom or even a house with a large laundry room or utility room, which will be able to live with it, though it does not please me, even under these conditions, the door is not easy to leave open only to a certain extent.
Who but a small bathroom has, which is perhaps even cut so that the ever-open until it stops washing machine door from the inside blocking the bedroom door, for that is annoying and he has to make do with putting a heavy object in front of the washing machine, so the door remains open only one piece, which is highly impractical, especially in small bathrooms.
Using the appliance:
The (nice to look at, but basically just a visual gimmick without actual value) quite smart-looking device with drum interior lighting comes with a rather short but sufficient instructions.
For advertised "8-kg drum" is to say that the drum size that fits in a washing machine with standard dimensions, of course, a certain size with the best intentions can not exceed.
The alleged 8 kg may be the weight that could cope with a purely technical point the machine, but even with heavy, smooth cotton and linen laundry, it will be virtually impossible to stuff actually 8 kg in the machine.
In the directions is then aptly not more of the alleged 8 kg the speech, rather than maximum amounts of laundry are at Cotton simply "maximum" and even 2 to 4kg indicated in other types of laundry.
I wonder, therefore, for years, why the capacity of washing machines not know what would be much more meaningful is expressed in volume.
A little more than my AEG (with the specified 5-kg drum) but swallows the Samsung actually.
There are the usual washing programs, to some special programs like outdoor and XXL-laundering.
(!) To what extent the XXL-program (eg bedspreads), which is to run five hours makes sense, may be called into question; I also for such laundry always served a delicate wash program and in view of the fact that the benefit of the XXL-program a number of programs my AEG missing (silk, hand wash), I find the program selection of Samsung, so diverse it also looks at first glance, not really optimal.
The full-bodied as advertised by Samsung "active foam" function is incidentally no Switchable program or extra, but the detergent is automatically foamed during flushing.
As I also in my significantly lower AEG never had a problem in that the detergent does not dissolve, I strongly suspect that virtually every modern brand washing machine is "to foam" and only Samsung was so smart is the first manufacturer to give the child a name and full-bodied to apply it - similarly, as would a Minera Lasser mark out great to stress that their water is calorie-free ...
Worth mentioning possibly the "Drum Cleaning program", which is to clean the drum without any additives at 70 °.
To what extent such a program so basically nothing but an idle at a somewhat elevated temperature, the machine is easier to clean, than to let them occasionally even walk blindly at 95 °, possibly with a special machine cleaner for little money, is revealed to me this not.
In addition, there is a "fault Rapp" that should react to these alleged problems with the machine.
Besides the fact that I am not a fan of it personally, to link all sorts of devices per app on my phone, I see the point of such app very critical:
First a washing machine was supposed to run for years without errors, secondly, if it nevertheless times are problems, is a look at these instructions no problem and if there is really any technical problems with the equipment, a technician or a new device must eventually anyway ago ,
For washing results:
This is blameless in use good washing.
That, however, you may well expect from any machine.
Conclusion:
The washing machine performs its service problems and tidy and offers the usual standard functions a few little extras on their purpose can be divided.
When it comes to processing and handling There are a few minor points that would cost the unit with average price only one star deduction.
With a price tag which is compared to similar brand appliances but about twice as high, it is simply too expensive.
Who the drum interior lights and the "Error App" actually are worth the high price tag, which gets a not perfect, but looking chic and tidy working machine here.
However, anyone who puts more emphasis on impeccable workmanship, functionality and reasonable price, I recommend to any would rather look at other devices.
Buy I would definitely not at that price, because it offers the Samsung not the high price adequate added value compared to less expensive brand equipment and, moreover, is weakening in various trifles.