I shave mainly dry for April this year, after I shaved wet over 15 years. The beginning of my shaver search was initially quite "hollprig" because I had to get used to the principle, not so profound dry shave without equal always be compared to the wet shave, and, furthermore, made the initial error to try mixed Scherblatt- and rotary blade systems. This led me to the fact that I immediately after the appearance of ES-LV81 bought in August me and used it as a razor this a few times. After a few stronger skin irritations I gave him back and tried me by a couple of other devices. Conclusion after this Irrlauf and teaching for all transfer passengers and Rasierneulinge: One should an electric shaver, the first four to six weeks, at least for sensitive skin, reinweg use as dry shavers, so a good acclimatization to the procedure is given. Likewise, one must (s) themselves are clear what kind of Rasiertyp one is. Who does not completely smooth skin from the feeling like in general and occurs only once every five or six days shaved once, for a unit of Philips is probably the optimum, as it is after a thorough shave are visually shaved, but still fine stubble in SAVED and can feel the neck, so at least for me and a few friends. However, since I value a smooth skin and easy shaving, I have to tracking the reviews want to give the latest Panasonic flagship again on pure dry shaving base a chance and did not regret !! The razor while shaving is very comfortable to hold, slides with little pressure over his face and neck and captures all hair to one to two times will pass over. Since my facial hair is characterized by a few vertebrae, I have the smaller stubble in the subsequent fine-tuning still to tackle from different directions, but very successful, despite the rather luscious shaving head. All in all I'm after four to five minutes nearly as clean-shaven as to the wet shave, maybe in a few places minimally worse. The display shows the switching on and off of the razor in a pleasant color to the eye shade of blue the remaining battery power in percent and zurvor the time that was used the device (for 10 minutes each begins measuring 0.00 minutes). Across the top products from other manufacturers, this device is clearly upwards and is highly recommended !! I am very curious to the next test of Stiftung Warentest, whether there also appreciates this quality. What anbelagt the choice between the ES-LV61 or ES-LV81, I can only say that for the general care of the station is really not needed. In terms of processing, handling and, ultimately, both are super par. I decided at the end of the 61s. Priced should run well on the net again before buying research, the razor is available in two variants at prices that are significantly lower right under the MSRP of Panasonic. One aspect that still stood out in retrospect: the '81 with the black head looks beautiful, but you can also see each dried water stain or Bart rest right away, which certainly sounds now overdone fussy but I want to mention just that from my personal point of view silver shaving head just a bit is even easier to clean. But in the end no matter which of the two is taken, in terms of shave and skin protection when dry shave There are currently, and certainly not as fast in the future, nothing better! Just buy it !!!
Addendum to good use 10 weeks:
Shaving time: So certainly this is always highly dependent on the individual hair type, but nevertheless here is my experience with relatively dense beard. When I shave every day, I need now only scarce four minutes is then also already incl. Finishing touches! The two-day beard and stubble are both at five to six minutes. As I said, I'm really fussy, and after the specified time is everything "finger friendly" smooth. I once waited six days since the shave then took well over ten minutes, but the result was sending you perfectly.
Battery: For long-term experience with the battery I can of course say nothing concrete, because the razor so is very new yet, but so far my battery lasts a good 55 to 60 minutes, so ten to Fifteen minutes longer than specified by the manufacturer. The percent battery remaining indicator is somewhat misleading. Most ad already reached 10% after 35 minutes, although I still have about 20 minutes left. The Minutes by then she falls for it but quite evenly. What bothers me is that now is not excessive, since I have closely approximated me with the device. However, I also make sure that I really charging the razor again until 0% is reached in order to prevent, albeit slow, memory effect.
Test: Stiftung Warentest has its biennial respect to the dry shaver testing time not adhered to, shame. For a test of eight appliances was carried out by ETM test magazine. Result: 1st place Philips RQ 1280 2nd Braun 795cc, 3rd place Panasonic ES-LV 81 with the Panasonic price money was. The magazine know clearly indicates that even from the perspective of the tester cleaning stations at today's razor-generation rather a dispensable "Goodie" are, everyone needs to know for themselves halt. Overall, I can the final result, which very nearly turned out between the three of them, understand only partially, but good in the end decides anyway the individuality of the individual user, luckily!