I live in a house that has an open family/living room adjacent to my large kitchen.  When my old dishwasher was running, you might as well forget trying to have a conversation in the family room.  The only solution I could come up with was to run the dishwasher after you went to bed.   However, when guests came over, it became necessary to run the diswasher between meals so that enough dinnerware was available for the next meal.

I happened to go into a Sears store and saw this dishwasher on display.  I had them turn on this dishwasher and I couldn't believe it was even running -...