This fan is beautiful and it's nice to have something solid and made out of actual metal rather than cheap plastic. The slide switch is much nicer to use than the usual knobs found on modern fans. The sound is perfect. You can't hear the motor, just the low-hiss of the air. I use fans every night to sleep for the white noise and this is great. More importantly to most users, the oscillation is quiet and steady and the highest setting is a good cooling breeze. This is the nicest fan I've owned.

This fan was too strong for my small office. The low setting is like high on most other cheap fans. This fan could keep the air circulating in a large space. Plus, it's not exactly quiet, but, not bad for the amount of air it moves.

The construction, quality, and design are excellent. The fan is much louder than most fans... too loud. The fan runs smoothly, but it is loud due to the amount of air it is moving. It seems to have three speeds, the slowest speed being turbo-jet. At the slowest speed, the fan oscillates back-and-forth every six seconds. It is giving me motion sickness. It might be great for the corner of a bar, but it is no good for an office.

I liked the retro look and the weight. It worked wonderfully for about a month and then it started getting louder. The oscillating really got loud -- so I used it in the stationary position. Now THAT is making noise. It got so bad last night, my husband, who cannot hear without hearing (and did not have them in) got up and turned it off. Another bad aspect is the extreme difficulty in cleaning this fan. I will never buy another fan that I cannot pop the front grate from easily. What a waste of good money!!

This fan is amazing. It is my favorite fan ever, in fact. It's heavy, it looks awesome, and it blows in a good way. A previous reviewer has commented on how, when on oscillating mode, it can "click" rather loudly -- and I noticed that mine does this sometimes as well -- but it is not annoying enough to return it for another one. Yet if it was that annoying, the point is that I *would* return it for another of the same fan, rather than look at a different brand or model.

It's made in the USA, and if anyone reading this is as sick as I am with certain overseas products that were only meant to last a year, maybe two, this fan will technically pay for itself in a year, maybe two -- and keep on producing.