Quick read: Attractive, quiet, large bucket, nice control panel, some very minor assembly. Air flow is side discharge and angled slightly downward towards the floor. You can point the stream of dehumidified air in the direction you want it to go by turning the machine but there are no vertical air adjustments. Uses R410A refrigerant and not R32 for some reason. Easy access to evaporator coil for cleaning. Humidistat is very accurate on my sample. This machine uses a measured 390 to 400 watts. At my summer rates of 0.1154 cents a kilowatt, if it ran 24 hours a day for 30 days, with the compressor always engaged it would cost $33.23 a month to run. I use it an hour a day so for me it's $1.38 a month. Overall it feels well made. I'd buy it again. Will it last? I don't know. The reliability of these things has been in a steep decline since the 1990's. This is now the only consumer purchase I will buy the warranty for.Details: This is my fifth dehumidifier and I like it the most. Compressor was noisy on the first start up for the first couple of hours then there were no rattles, buzzing or weird noises. Just the steady whoosh of air without any variations in pitch. Noise is a pretty subjective subject. The quality of the sound is so steady and smooth I quickly tune it out. The gentle thud of the compressor kicking in and out is barley detectable. My sound comments are based with the machine on a carpeted floor. It's a little louder on tile. Attractive and feels well made. Very large bucket. I like the control panel, it offers lots of flexibility. In the Comfort mode it will try to maintain a 50% humidity level. I can also set it to run continuously. Or set it to run continuously with the timer. The timer is two stage. If the machine is running I can set it for when I want it to stop. Plus I have the option of also setting it for when I want it to restart again. If the machine is off, the timer can be set to turn it on with the option of also setting it to turn itself off again. The last run option is to put the humidistat in control of the dehumidifier and it will cycle on and off based on the set point. A word about humidistat control. When the desired humidity level is reached, the compressor kicks off and the blower continues to run for an additional 3 minutes, (drying out the evaporator coil). Drying out the evaporator coil puts humidity back into the air. Enough humidity that in a small room it (plus the detected moisture in the machine) will force the dehumidifier to restart a couple of minutes later. It then becomes this endless start, stop cycle. Very annoying. I use a small fan blowing on the humidistat (top right corner of air filter area at the edge of evaporator coil) to stop the humidistat from being triggered by the moisture in the dehumidifier. Comfort comments. This machine raises my bedroom temperature about 2 degrees an hour, (pleasing in the winter, annoying in the summer). All 5 of my past dehumidifiers would give us pretty nasty headaches if the blower was facing us. This thing is a bit overpowered for a bedroom (11x12) but it's the quietest in the series. Both the larger 50 pint and the smaller 20 pint are noisier (based on Midea documentation). The larger 50 pint is substantially more efficient than this but it's way too much for a small room. That would be my choice for a basement. I am OCD about keeping evaporator coils clean to keep the units efficient and hoping to discourage mold growth. This is the first dehumidifier I've ever owned that gives you easy access to the evaporator coil without having to take the thing apart. Yay! I still put a foam air conditioning filter on top of the built in filter out of habit and sealed up some air leaks under the machine. The extra filter does make it slightly more vulnerable to icing up with the slightly reduced airflow. Kwik Kut 15”x24” foam filters are available at my local Ace Hardware stores for $1.99.I love this thing. The only two things I would change would be for Midea to figure out a way to stop all the false restarts from internally detected moisture. The other being a timer modification to allow for endless restarts and shut downs. I want to be able to set it for any continuous timed value I wanted. Like being able to set if for 30 minutes on and then 30 minutes off, until the water tank is full. That was a common function in the 1990's on Goldstar brand dehumidifiers.UPDATE: 5/3/21 Measured power consumption is up to 419 watts.UPDATE: 5/15/22. Not very effective once temperatures fall into the upper 60’s. If you wanted it for a basement I’d pick something else.