Nuwave Infinity Noise Reduction Blender

Edit March 8, 2025. The replacement blender is now bad. The drive shaft is all wobbly and the jar won't sit down fully to engage. Worst blender I've ever had. Such nice features with poor durability engineering. ******************************************* Broken drive shaft after only 3 weeks. I made 18 smoothies, then there was a horrible screeching noise and the blades were barely moving. The drive shaft broke. The spline that connects the motor to the jar was floppy and raised up so the jar wouldn't sit in position. I returned it to Amazon... with some hassle. The UPS store refused to accept it without the out brown cardboard shipping box. They said Amazon wouldn't accept it if shipped in the retail box. I had to go home and get an old cardboard box large enough to hold the retail box and take it to the UPS store where the clerk helped me package the retail box inside. If you buy one of these, keep all the boxes. Other than dying a horrible screeching death and leaving my smoothing unblended, this was a great blender; and everything I had hoped for. It was powerful, until it died. The smoothie cycle is 35 seconds and in that short time it made my greens, flax and chia seeds and frozen fruit very smooth. It exceeded my expectations until it died. The jar seems sturdy and well designed. One review said it lacks a pour spout, not true. It's not the best pour spout but it worked well enough to pour my smoothie directly into a small mouthed standard water bottle. The handle is sturdy and when I put my hand into it, my fingers engaged into a groove in the side of the jar, making my grip more secure. Excellent design. The sound reduction cover is good. It reduced the sound by 4 decibels, which is significant. It still makes noise, but it doesn't wake up my wife in the bedroom like our previous blender. I'm such a sucker that I just ordered another of these. This time I bought the 4 year assurion extended warranty. The warranty, at 33 bucks cost 1/4 as much as a the blender. But, after my first experience with this blender screeching and crashing, It's nice to know that if the replacement fails I'll get a hundred bucks back to apply to a real blender like a vitamix. I hope I don't remain disppointed in Nuwave.