Elchim Professional 2001 1800 Watt Classic Hair Dryer (Colors May Vary)

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Product Feature
1. Light high pressure dryer produces a high flow of air that does not overheat to the point of harming the hair
2. Seven switch combinations for seven ranges of speed and temperature
3. High quality heating element made of Swedish Kanthal wire
4. Housing made of shock and flame resistant polycarbonate plastic
5. Made in Italy

Product Description
Light and fitted with top quality components. Double balanced, long life motor.

Elchim Professional 2001 1800 Watt Classic Hair Dryer (Colors May Vary)

customer reviews
Best Hair Dryer   I would recomend this hair dryer to anyone especially those with thick hair. It does wonders for my hair and straightens my hair in no time. I have thik hair and a busy life style so I need a dryer that will dry my hair fast. Ordinary dryers take 2 hours to dry my hair while this one take half hour. It would work on fine hair as well. Its a great product which I have bought before at a salon years ago for much more. I decided to buy in on Amazon for in the salon they are charging $200.00. :2011-01-03 12:16:44

Sensational Dryer-worth every penny  
After reading the reviews which were almost all five stars the one that made me decide to give it a try was David Chapman magikamos. Thank you David! You were right....this is a GREAT dryer. Superb air flow great ability to control temp/air with the multiple settings. It takes so much less time to dry my shoulder length THICK wavy hair. Before I could never get my hair to look the way it does at the salon; I thought the problem must be with me. With this dryer I get professional looking results. At work I keep getting asked Your hair looks great. What are you doing different? The only difference is a professional styling tool at a really reasonable price.

curly girls dream hairdryer   Im a freak about straitening my hair and Ive tried every product and hair dryer. Why I didnt just save my money and start with the Elgin I dont know. I LOVE this hairdryer. Its on the bulky side for travel though and I recently took my old travel dryer....mistake...I was kicking myself. It also cuts your drying time in half. Product was as promised by Amazon as well.

Best hair dryer Ive ever owned  
Ive been using hair dryers since 1975 and this is by far the best Ive ever owned. It reminds me of the way hair dryers used to be designed: moderate heat but high air flow. Thats the correct way to do it. The cheap mass-market hair dryers started getting this backwards around the time they all transitioned from squirrel-cage fans to radial fans. Heating-element wire is cheaper than decent fans motors I guess; and if that turns a hair dryer into a blowtorch so what -- people who dont know any better will buy them anyway. This particular unit has a very long round cord. I cant vouch for the cords durability but I see no reason it wouldnt hold up. Even if it were fragile though Id still want to own this hair dryer. Cords are easy to replace. Ive put two on my massive GE steam iron an old-timer from the 1960s. In summary then this dryer is tough heavy quiet comfortable extraordinarily effective and obviously built for the long haul. It is far far above anything Ive seen in the stores since squirrel-cage motors disappeared some years ago.

Better faster quieter than nano tourmaline ionic dryers  
When my Elchim dryer finally died after something like six years of daily service I researched what to get. Pretty much every beauty magazine and website was touting the benefits of the new generation of nano tourmaline ionic dryers which were supposed to dry your hair more quickly and with less damage than dryers like my old Elchim. Dont believe it. Ive tried two of the new-fangled dryers since then. It took my super fine hair forever to dry with them whereas this dryer dries my hair in one-tenth of the time. Literally. And my hair comes out much smoother. I have a ceramic flat iron that I used to use for special occasions. With those nano tourmaline dryers I was using my flat iron every day. When I dry my hair with my Elchim I dont need to iron it maybe because my hair dries so quickly it doesnt have time to frizz wave or otherwise go crazy. And finally theres the noise factor. You might be fooled into thinking this dryer isnt very powerful because its so relatively quiet. My ionic tourmaline dryers sounded like a 747 revving up and one of them vibrated like crazy. This one feels very low key and yet it actually dries my hair really quickly and makes my hair feel soft. All that flat ironing was damaging it. I am so happy to have another Elchim Im kicking myself for having waited this long to get another one. Its worth every penny. As for whether this one will last six years only time will tell but Im betting it will last longer than my first nano tourmaline dryer which conked out after about half a year.

Compliments keep coming + Lots of homework done for you  
Let me address the title of the review. From the very first day she used this thing she started getting compliments about her hair. Her hair is normally pretty straight and flat and it definitely had more body. It was also less frizzy after she got done drying it for whatever thats worth. The compliments are fading now that her coworkers are used to the new look but my wife is still raving about it. I purchased this for her because I got tired of repairing or replacing all of the crappy ones she bought over the years. The latest one I put to rest dimmed all of the lights in the house when it was coming online. She and I needed a change. I read all of the good reviews on Amazon and elsewhere and gave it a shot. The Elchim is everything I hoped for in a hairdryer. The first thing my wife and I both noticed was that it was MUCH quieter than any hair dryer she had ever used. Its highest setting is equivalent to most hair dryers lowest setting. We can actually hold a conversation now if we need to while she dries her hair. I figured it was up to my wife to protect her own hearing but I was very concerned when she dried my daughters hair. It definitely defeats the myth that louder is better or more powerful. Secondly the quieter airflow was very powerful. 1500 liters/minute is the claim. I havent ever seen another volume measurement but it sounds impressive right? Anyway as others have stated my wife dried her hair in about half of the time that it took her normally. She thought I was nuts when I showed it to her and it did not sound like a fighter jet but she was pleasantly surprised. It has a removable filter screen twist-off on the end to keep the airflow at its peak which will prove invaluable over time. The buildup of hairspray makeup lint and whatever else will be easy to remove without completely disassembling it. This congealed mess has contributed to the deaths of other hair dryers in the past. Elchim is a professional brand and they build their products for heavy-duty use. It has a thick round cord which will be much less prone to tangling. It is smaller than almost every full size hair dryer she has owned. It has a sleek design as opposed to the ones with the cylinder sticking out the side to house the motor. This will prove great for packing. I expect it to last for years. I read many mixed reviews about the ionic dryers Tourmaline ceramic heating elements EMF etc. but none swayed me away from common sense. See below: The ionic dryers are supposed to trap moisture in your hair. A few things on that: Moisture = weight. Weight = flat. Conditioners are still the best thing to protect your hair and give it shine without weighing it down. Many use wax which is much lighter than water and gives body and shine without weighing the hair down. There are also claims about breaking down the water molecules to smaller sizes. Science note: Breaking down a molecule of water H2O leaves hydrogen peroxide HO and a free hydrogen atom H. We now have that answer for fuel cell cars and bleach blondes right? Ionic dryers dont heat the air they heat the hair from within. Isnt that what microwaves do? There are good Ionic dryers out there but be wary of the claims. Some people claim that ionic dryers also cause dry eyes and headaches. I did not see a need to risk anything like that. Last thing about ionic dryers the cheaper ones use technology in which the ionizer does not last. A good ionic dryer will cost you more than the $29.95 delivered! versions. Read the reviews none of the 5-star reviews for the cheaper ones is after extended use. Many of the lowest reviews complain about inconsistency lack of performance and breaking down altogether. If you want a good ionic dryer be prepared to spend a little. If the cheapies were the answer they would be in use in the salons. Bottom line: Your hearing matters; protect it. Proven technology matters; ignore the hype about trapping moisture in the hair you are trying to dry. Ergonomics matter; pack-ability weight and hand comfort might make or break you on how you feel about your hair dryer. My wifes arrived in all black...so what. She never paraded one around in the past and I dont expect her to anytime soon. They only make black white red and red-black no neon or orange surprises. There is no substitute for quality and durability. While you may not always get what you pay for if you buy cheap things the adage holds true. I researched these things thoroughly before I bought it and read several reviews where people were using their Elchim hair dryers for 10+ years. I have no doubt that this will follow those lines. Salons around the world use them several hours per day. Ours should last for years. Well worth the $60-ish I paid. *** Update - Feb 20 2010 *** After about two years and NO abuse the cord on my wifes hairdryer crapped the bed. What is weird is that it broke about three inches down from the rubber protector that goes into the handle. I expected any break would be at a bend where the protector ends or inside of the hairdryer where it is internally clamped. It broke where it should have never been an issue. I cut the cord about two inches from the solder points where I thought the break would be intending to solder back on. As it turned out the intermittent wiring was about three to four inches further down from my original cut. When I dissected the failed portion it looked like it had been accidentally crimped or kinked in the manufacturing process. I still hold that the hairdryer is top-notch. I will repair the cord on the next one I get if I get the same model. Why do I need another one? Read on. For the guys out there saying no biggy I can fix a cord beware. For the record this thing is a BEAST to disassemble and reassemble. I work with all sorts of electronics. When it originally failed I opened up the hairdryer thinking the electrical problem was internal. Once I was inside I saw the problem was not there. However there were two wires in there that broke with little maneuvering and prove near impossible to repair. After reassembling the hairdryer I could not get the screws seated well enough to feel safe when in the hands of my wife or daughter. I threw it out after MUCH frustration and solder. It did work when I got it back together but the exposed screws in a wet environment caused me concern. I regret doing this because I was the person that posted the pictures of the cord and how it would never break. Alas I was wrong. I think I will look for a newer/different model by the same manufacturer. I DID NOT contact Elchim to see how much a repair was. After shipping both ways Im sure it would have been up there with the cost of the dryer itself. I did email them a detailed description of the failure though. Nobody has replied to that letter. My wife hates the replacement dryertourmaline and wants her Elchim back. For all those that I doubted: Im stupid. Youre smart. I was wrong. You were right. Youre the best. Im the worst. Youre very good looking. Im not attractive. from Happy Gilmore I thought about posting pictures of my failure but whats the point. I edited a picture previously posted noting where the item eventually broke. Good electrician possibly a good deal. I would change my star rating but it would remove my review from the most helpful spot. If you read this far you must have felt it was helpful too....or at least amusing?