Been tired of my noisy R2D2 looking antique SS canister shop vac for awhile, but am to cheap to buy something NICE and quiet.
After reading some online reviews, bought a Dewalt DXV10P Quiet 10gal Shop vac, when saw Lowes had it on sale for $139 a few months ago. It's so quiet, forget to turn it off when both fans are keeping my AZ shop comfortable. Have only owned a couple shop vacs, and performance seems about average for medium sized vac; except for very low noise level.
No major complaints. OEM 2"+ plastic hose is really stuff. Use a smaller hose when attached to my various ROS. I use it with a Dust Stopper cyclone head on 5gal bucket for my media blast cabinet successfully. Besides sanding and blast cabinet dust control; only other duty of my shop vac is cleaning the wood/metal chips off the floor.
YMMV