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am seen that's right Chris here at the Dyson kinetic big ball animal allergy vacuum now this is a new machine from Dyson that eliminates the filter all together so it vacuums and vacuums and vacuums and doesn't lose suction over its life now this isn't an inexpensive vacuum it's $700 so really a couple of car payments we're talking about here and competitors that we've enjoyed from auric and Electrolux each ring in at four hundredths so you're definitely paying a premium for that filterless design what's more those competitors and even the $200 sharp rotator Pro were able to go toe-to-toe with Dyson in our test especially with large particles and pet hair but when we're talking about fine particles things like sand and ground-up dirt the Dyson kinetic really shines in our test it fit better than the ORAC touch which is our previous top scoring vacuum in that category so a very good result there now all that basic stuff out of the way let's talk about that cool new filterless feature dyson pulled it off by breaking that cyclone that gets the dirt out of the air into hundreds of smaller cyclones with the vibrating tips that help prevent clogs now I'm not entirely sure that I understand everything that I just said but in our tests it worked like a charm lots of vacuums promise no loss of suction but this is a vacuum that actually walks the walk and we tested this out by having it vacuum up 10 pounds of fine particulates in half pound increments after each half pound increment we'd test the suction to see how it was doing we did this with a couple of vacuums if you take a look at this graph I think it illustrates the results really well that line at the top is the Dyson kinetic and it really maintains its suction doesn't dip at all the more we use it the other vacuums can't say the same thing they dip down as we continued using them the suctions disappearing so you need to clean out the filter every couple of months in order to keep it up at that top level it's nice and you wouldn't so that's a great result but does it make the Dyson kinetic $300 better than the Oryx touch and the Electrolux retro clean I'm not sure that it does but I couldn't blame you if you wanted one this is really nice vacuum and it's a really cool feature not having that filter you hate speeding up the filter in your vacuum you just want to not worry about it it might be we're splurging thanks for watching with the Dyson kinetic big ball animal allergy vacuum I'm Rui Chris for CNET appliances make sure to check out the rest of our vacuum and appliance reviews at CNET