Here's one for you. If you decide that it is good, go with Windster. Windster WS38 30" Pro - Baffle filter - 760 CFM - $450 call direct - LED lights Con - 8 1/2" high Check it out and see the style. Link below. www.windsterhood.com

It is a long story but I actualy have both of these vents in my house. The oil catcher is installed, the baffle is sitting on the floor. It depends what your priorities are. I think the baffle filters look better, the oil catcher performs better. The baffle filters generate noise and slow down the air flow. I think the noise numbers that Kobe publishes are not for baffle filter hood. Underneath the baffle filters are basically oil catcher 'guts' just lacking the oil catchers. Using my Rat Shack meter the oil catcher on low is silent. The meter (which only goes down to 50db) does not register any noise. The baffle filter was in the mid 60's if I recall. Still pretty quiet but the air rushing through the baffles makes noise. All things equal though I would like to re-install the baffle hood. It looks better to me. The oil catcher has sides that curve and the steel on one side is warped. Another member on here has the same problem. cosmetic but still a hood of this costs should not have a problem like that. Welding a curve though is not easy. The biggest lesson learned for me is that the hood's performance is very much dependent on the vent pipe through the roof. Due to the gas line running through the ceiling over the hood the pipe is restricted to 6" and on top of that is makes a few turns. Then the roof vent is further restricting. This means the hood needs to run at a high speed to get any air flowing. I'm going to try to find someone to replace the roof vent to see if that frees up some air flow. If so I will reinstall the baffle hood.

I agree with gigelus2k13. Hood noise is not a big deal. Most of the time when you are in your kitchen, the hood will either be Off or Low. The few times it will be on high it will either be an emergency or a short period of extra heat/smoke during intense cooking. During either of those times, I don't think hood noise will be the first thing on your mind. If you want to minimize hood noise, make sure the hood and ducting are installed properly, and don't buy more CFM than you need. In this case, I am really questioning whether you need 1100 CFM for a 36" range. Will this range have a grill on it? I am also going to mention makeup air as I always do. If someone is talking about a new hood install and they don't mention makeup air, I always assume they don't know what it is, just to be safe. If you have that planned already or it is being taken care of, just tell me and I'll shut up.

@sarina: I have had the Kobe RA02 for about 8 months now. Being an engineer, I did the install myself, although the chimney cover is still not in place, as I need to redo the crown molding behind it (procrastination is the name of this game). Overall I like it, but that doesn't say much, as my previous ventilation was just a fan-in-a-ceiling-hole. The quiet setting is quiet, but the other two are noisy; without previous experience, the "sones" numbers don't translate well into actual noise levels. Otherwise, on High, the hood is pulling out all the smoke and airborne grease steaks in a cast-iron skillet produce. You will have to open a window or install a MUA to help it pull all that air volume. The baffles need scrubbing every month or so, but that's a very small price to pay for not having cabinetry and walls smeared in grease. The model you're looking at is a little more elaborate, as it has some sort of electronic control. The RA02 is bare-bones, just two rotary switches.