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The Miele S2120 Olympus comes standard with a combination rug / bare surface combination floor tool. With a simple step of a switch a brush extends out of the floor tool for cleaning bare surfaces, and retracts back into the head for cleaning rugs and carpeting. The combination tool is most effective for cleaning very low pile carpeting such as indoor / outdoor, commercial grade carpeting. The S2120 can be upgraded to use the Miele STB205-3 Full Sized Turbo Brush for homes that have plush thick piled carpets, or for homes that have pet hair problems. Other standard features of the Miele S2120 Olympus includes a 29.5 foot cleaning radius, Large 4.76 quart Miele Style GN bags, a protective pre-motor filter, soft rubber wheels that prevent scratching of wood floors, metal telescoping wands, a suction control on the handle that allows to vent the suction for cleaning delicate rugs, draperies, and upholstery, and a convenient parking dock for the wand and power nozzle on the side, and rear of the of the vacuum. Backing the quality of its product has never been a problem for Miele, and its warranty on all S7 vacuums is the latest example: Miele offers a best-in-industry 7-year warranty on its Vortex motor, a new 7 year casing warranty which covers the upper and lower housings, and one year on all parts and labor.
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Technical Details
- Deluxe Combination Rug / Floor Tool- New VarioClipTM conveniently store on-board attachments either on the top of the hose, or on base of the hose
- Variable Speed Motor Control by Rotary Dial
- Standard Super-Air Clean Filtration - HEPA Filter Optional
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By FLDonna (Tampa, Florida USA)
I love it. It is quiet, lightweight, and the suction is excellent. This MIELE is 'bagged' and the bags can be bought at a reasonable cost. LOVE IT!!! I did buy a horsehair floor brush for my new cleaner on E-Bay since I have tile.
BAGGED vs. BAGLESS cleaners: My advice is don't fall for the 'bagless' gimmick with other manufacturers. You think you will save $$ on bags but you pay much more to replace HEPA filters. My old cleaner was 'bagless' and with no bag to catch the dirt and dog hair, my HEPA filter was getting dirty and stinky very quickly. It's cheaper to replace a bag ($3) every few months than an expensive HEPA filter.
By Elena Santogade (New York, NY)
I'm loving this vacuum! It's small, well-made, works amazingly well, is quiet, has great attachments. Honestly, I don't have a single complaint. Worth the money, for sure, and a joy to use!
By A Good Man in FL (South Florida)
Incredible how an entry level machine (in the Miele line) can outperform every other machine I looked at over the last year. I looked at Bosch, Panasonic, Electrolux, Hoover and Sears. I wanted a quiet, capable, durable machine under $500. What I got was a machine that is a really a joy to use and extremely effective on everything from floor to ceiling and all the stuff in-between. Gone from vacuuming are the tugging, tipping, the twice-overs, the stuff my power nozzle used to throw off- and the NOISE. I'm all about quality tools and frankly I hesitated on this model because of the price. Once I realized what I'm cleaning is fairly straight-forward (mostly tile, a few medium pile rugs, and a lot of curtains), I bought this model. In the future, I can upgrade to a turbo nozzle if need be, but frankly, it just does seem necessary at all. In an age of hyper-hype, this machine delivers more than one would ever expect of Meile or any other maker.
By Milena
Being from Germany, I'm so glad I was able to buy a Miele vacuum here at a decent price. Unlike any American vacuum cleaner I've used over the many years I've lived here, this one is quiet, lightweight, sucks well, and moves around smoothly -- just what a vacuum cleaner is supposed to do. We have all hardwood floors, so I cannot say how it works on any sort of carpet, and I recommend buying the parquet floor brush, which does an excellent job at cleaning hardwood without any worries about scratches, and swivels easily into all corners, around radiators, into gaps next to cabinets, etc. I highly recommend this vacuum. You don't need a fancier Miele unless you need fancier brushes, but even those you can upgrade separately if you need to.
By goonius (a room in a house on a street in a city just like any other.)
After struggling with a crappy upright for years, and a hand-me-down ancient Hoover canister for even more years, the Miele Olympus is a breath of fresh air. Literally.
When I began to notice that the time I spent vacuuming had doubled because the old Hoover spat out so much fine particulate matter that the whole house was eternally covered in dust, I began my ploy for marketing this expensive piece of German machinery to my significant other. He eventually conceded, and I've even caught him red-handed as he sneaks in a vacuuming session here or there - just for fun. And when you're really cleaning things, it does make vacuuming fun. Almost.
I went to our local store, tested one out, decided that the main floor attachment it comes with is rather shabby, added a Parquet Floor Brush (at an insane 75% off discount) and a HEPA filter, and I was on my way.
This is one of the best features of the Miele vacuums. The all have the same motor, and the same suction power. Most of them (save for the cool-looking, wonderfully equipped, but Power Brush-incompatible Neptune) can be almost endlessly upgraded. The Olympus, while being a very bare-bones machine straight out of the box, can be upgraded with the far-superior horse-hair attachments (it comes with synthetics), can be upgraded with a (rather expensive, but really neat) Turbo Brush, which rotates with the wind created by the awesome suction, or you can do one better and upgrade the Olympus to a power brush, making it essentially the same machine as the Titan. What I love about this, is that you can buy the parts as you need them - and perhaps more importantly, for many of us - as you can afford them, rather than plunking down a whopping $600 or more in one fell swoop.
Furthermore, you can upgrade the filtration system from the 'Clean Air' which is essentially a thin piece of cloth, to the HEPA, which filters out even more particulates - for those of us with allergies - and has deodorizing charcoal. Not that you'd need it, necessarily. One look at the Miele bags, which filter before the air ever reaches this secondary filtration system, and it's immediately clear there's not too much that could make it through these dual barriers. The bags are multi-layered thick material, and each comes with a spring-loaded valve, into which the hose plugs. Thus when you turn off the machine or go to replace the bag, the bag is already sealed off and no dust can escape. I think that's right fancy.
The vacuum itself comes with 6 power settings, each indicated by a little image of what surface they are appropriate for vacuuming. The lowest is a dusting setting, the last three are hard wood floors/tile, short nap rugs, and high pile carpeting. The vacuums motor starts up slowly, and this has taken some getting used to, because I'm used to vacuum motors just roaring to life. Even once the motor is going full-tilt, it's amazingly quiet. On the lower settings, it's like a whisper, at the higher settings it's at least half the volume I've come to expect from a vacuum. Most of the noise of the vacuum actually comes from the speed with which the wind travels through the tunnel. Depending on the surface you're vacuuming, the attachment you're using, and the setting, this can be quite loud and high-pitched.
But, as one might expect the suction is amazing. After the trial run with this vacuum, I realized that even when I've mopped in the past, our floors have never felt so clean, so free of debris. There are places in our house, along the baseboards, which I just assumed were discolored from 50-odd years of dust, and the Miele sucked the dust right out. Voila! I use the crappy floor attachment to do out area rugs (we have predominantly hard-wood floors and tile) and the rugs are cleaner than ever. It's a bit of a battle, without the power brush, to keep the suction needed to pull the dirt up from trying to consume the edges of the rugs. But with no power brush, it's not like it mangles them or anything.
The canister itself glides smoothly along the floor. There are places for each of the three dusting/furniture attachments around the beginning of the hose to allow easy transition from one attachment to another, and another location on the rear for when I need to store the parquet floor brush. The latter is less of a help, because removing the attachment often triggers the cord rewind. And speaking of the cord, it is about 6' too short. I do miss the longer cord from the old Hoover.
The two last things of note are that the tubing of the Miele is crush-proof, so if you're a klutz and occasionally step on it (like me!) it won't get all mangled up. The hose can also be removed, as can every other individual part. Thus you can effectively dislodge accidental objects - like those pesky baby socks that always seem to hide under the sofa in an evil plot to ruin my day. The old Hoover made it impossible to retrieve such objects, once they became lodged, without the help of a garden hose. And another thing that matters a great deal to me is that the air discharges through the top of the machine, so it doesn't stir up dust bunnies before you make your way over to them with the hose. Every single detail of this vacuum has been thought out carefully and effectively executed. I guess that's what you get when you buy from a company who makes a product to last, without foreign slave labor, whose workers are unionized, and paid living wages. You'd think America would do well to take a lesson from modern-day Germany.
We've had this machine a few months now, and have used it more than once per week. The only significant drawback is the cord. Everything else is overwhelmingly positive. It's made the job of cleaning a messy house of toddlers a more manageable, less stressful task, and you can't even put a dollar amount on the value of that. It is pricey. But maybe that's just because I've become so unaccustomed to paying the 'real cost' of a well-made item. Cheap junk from China will spoil you that way. So, bottom line: I think its been worth every penny and then some.
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