Intricate differences between Juki DX-2000QVP and Singer Quantum Stylist 9660 - you won't find those in their specs and I couldn't pick those up from the online reviews either.
Several other things:
Singer bobbin threading is more fiddly. The hook is a bit hard to catch with the thread, and then you need to pull it up and do a full needle cycle. With Juki it's bobbin in, route, snip and off you go.
On the other hand Singer has a guide that you can bolt to the base place. For Juki they have a magnet to do the same but it's an optional accessory.
Singer also has basting stitch which can be handy. Juki doesn't provide a good solution for free-motion basting. We found a work around with selecting free motion quilting straight stitch, and using foot down + needle cycle + foot up (then move the fabric and repeat). If you program heel controller to do foot up/down on heel press and set machine to stop with needle up, then one basting stitch would be: heel kick, toe kick, heel kick; then move the fabric and repeat. Just in free motion quilting, even with tension dropped to -3, the thread is still to tight and caused fabric to bunch a bit, i.e. you need to raise the foot to fully release upper tension.
Another bonus for Singer is electronic tension adjustment. Juki states it sets tension automatically, but if you want to adjust that - you need to use the knob, i.e. you can't program it as part of your custom stitch definition, e.g. for drop tension even further when you do free-motion basting.
Still, Juki takes the crown among all machines we've tried in this price-range for having the most snappy electronic foot lifting which is a major thing for us.
Both machines were purchased with our own money but thanks to Costco amazing return policy we have managed to return Singer since eventually it didn't meet our expectations.
8 сен 2024