Unique in its ability to heat the food while you blend! It was a pleasant surprise feature I didn’t expect to have. I have used many different brands of blenders, this is the Cadillac of blenders.
So far so good. We have made peanut/cashew butter, a bunch of smoothies, and tomato sauce and this thing has been great. It's significantly quieter than most blenders, has more power (obviously) and the variable speed makes it easy to get the consistency you are looking for with your mix, whatever it may be. Yeah, paying this much for a blender is a little crazy on the surface but if you use it a lot, it's 100% worth it.
I was apprehensive at first because it doesn't quite look like other blenders. But OMG this is so easy to use and cleaning is a snap. It is a bit loud but worth it because it is super powerful. I regret that I didn't pull the trigger sooner. It now has a permanent place on my counter!