Fantastic blender! I was hesitant like many other people have stated, but I decided to give it a shot since my other blender just broke. I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED! Peanut Butter in 1 min? YES PLEASE! Almond Butter in 2 min? HECK YES! Smooth smoothies? OH MY GAWD! I chose this model because reviews stated that the standard models can be quite loud and shake all over the counter. I am very sensitive to noises, and this is manageable. After speed 8 it gets "loud" but it's nothing near any other blender I've heard. My ONLY gripe so far... is that I can't remove the blade to get a good clean. So, I am left to trust the system of running the hot soapy water for a minute in it. Sometimes I feel this doesn't get it all (I've even tried using ice to get some harder things out of the blender). Thankfully my sink has a strong spray nozzle where I can blast a lot of the peanut butter residue out.

I bought my Vitamix A2500 a little over a month ago. I can't believe I sat on the fence debating for so long whether to buy it or not. The money spent is well worth it. I have probably spent the same amount on previous blenders which have broken all broken down.

I love my Vitamix. The way this machine pulverizes anything in its path is phenomenal. I’m glad I went with the smart machine with ease of the knobs. Honestly the presets aren’t super necessary so if you’re on a budget maybe go to the other model. But overall this machine performs. I’ve never had a blender like it and we’ve gone through a few.

Love my new Vitamix! My almond milk is so much more creamy and thick, the blender is able to extract so much more out of the almonds. Even my 5 year old notices the difference! I have a smoothie almost daily now because I can’t pass up using my vitamix.

I have been using my Vitamix for about 2 months now and love how versatile the features make this machine. I find that I am blending something every single day now, whether that be a smoothie, a soup, a sauce or a nut butter, everything comes out tasting great. It makes cooking exciting and fun and easy to get away from the same flavors every day.

We are super pleased with our VITAMIX! At first I wasnt sure if it would get much use, but the entire family uses it every day. My kids make shakes and smoothies. I have used it to puree ingredients for my soups and dressings. Its truly a great tool to have in the kitchen, and makes cooking easier. And the cleanup is so simple on this durable piece of wonder, just add warm water and a drop of dish soap and run it. Or you can put it in the dishwasher. Its funny, yesterday my teenage daughter told me when she moves out, shes taking it with her! I dont think so!!!

I'm very pleased with my new Vitamix, with which I have already made a bunch of great blends: perfectly smooth hummus, delish babaganoush, fresh peach sorbet, and multiple awesome drinks including something like a Frappacino. True, it wasn't cheap, but the best things rarely are.... no surprises, no buyer's remorse.

Does the job but very loud and doesn't sound as smooth functioning inside the machine. So far, the blending seems to be on par with the first machine we had BUT this model is extremely loud in comparison! I was shocked the first time I turned it on. And it moves around on the counter quite a bit when on the smoothie mode. Not the best model we have had but our other machine broke and I don't want to be without a machine while we figure out if another model would be as effective but more quiet. We will see how long it lasts for...sounds rough.

they are requesting i do this review. but i have not had the machine for very long. so its a bit premature to give a accurate review. The biggest negative was the price. Its super expensive. But it is American made. If it were not, i would not have been willing to pay that much for it. i do like the features it has. if you want to make a smoothie, you turn the dial to the picture of the smoothie and press start button and it runs the machine at one speed for several seconds and then speeds up at appropriate time and when its done it stops and the results are the smoothie comes out perfect. with a ordinary blender, you'd have to adjust the speeds manually and check it until you got it where you wanted. but it does have a way to do it manually if you didn't like using their preset settings for smoothie and a couple other items, i forget right now what they are. one thing they could improve on is i am not jazzed about the plastic container. wished it was glass. also the lid has a twist off center cap, which is hard to twist off easily. its somewhat hard to pull up to add some water/juice or some thing through that opening. but overall, thats a minor issue. other thing is when its on full throttle, its kind of loud, like most blenders. possibly future models could be designed to operate more quietly.

My primary use case for the blender was for morning smoothies. A typical smoothie for me contains a fruit, a liquid, some protein powder, leafy greens, and ice. That also happens to be the recommended order to add them as the ice helps push things down. Since it's just a single serving in a giant container, there isn't much height of smoothie to slow down the ice ones it hits the blades. This results in the ice shooting up to the top of the blender, and kicks up ingredients that haven't blended yet onto the walls/top of the container. The video I've added shows this, and you can see a giant chunk of spinach kicked up on the side right when the ice reaches the blades. Yes, I could just spatula it all off and then re-run the blender. I could probably also crush the ice before putting it in. Regardless, there isn't yet a smaller container to make single serving smoothies efficiently. This thing is just too wide of a container for a single serving smoothie with ice cubes. I don't fault the blender. It's a beast, and I'm glad to have bought a vitamix. There just aren't enough accessories yet for the Ascent series blenders. Really hope the 32oz container makes its way to the Ascent line, as that would be perfect for me. My review is based on the fact the Ascent is still a new blender base that hasn't yet released the other containers.