I looked at the Bertazonni but the oven was WAY too small for my liking, was like an Easy Bake oven. Other than that it looked like a decent range though. I think AJ Madison is probably not terribly far from you and they should have the NXR probably. What made me "finally" decide for sure on the NXR was when my wife & I drove down to Florida to visit friends we took a detour to Tampa where we saw the NXR in person. Looked great to us, hell of a lot better than ANYTHING we had been looking at in our price range. We had started looking for something around $900 or so and quickly decided that wasn't an option. So upped the limit to $1600, all we could find then was a Kenmore stove that seemed reasonable BUT, had sad little burners of which only ONE was actually decent power the rest were virtually useless, light little grates, light duty oven racks, no infrared broiler. Blah I thought there has to be something better than this, all the known nice stoves like the Blue Stars and Wolfs etc were plain out of the question because for the most part they were $1000+ over our stove budget that we had already raised twice as it was. I actually found a lot of my info on the NXR on GW, at the time several people had bought one and they all seemed to love them and I saw zero complaints. When we saw it at the place in Florida and the guy there was very helpful seemed pretty knowledgeable said he had sold quite a few of the NXR's and never had a complaint. He then pulled the oven door down and stood on it with all his weight (about 190#) one foot on each side of window to show how solid the door and hinges were. Then he said he could sell us one for $1799 delivered to the door I just shook his hand and said sold. Extra $200 for one hell of a lot better stove was worth it. IF you decide you can live without a storage drawer then I can guarantee you that you will not find a better stove for $2000 or less, at least not a brand new anyway. The washers hold the stainless rock solid to the wall so you never have to drill a hole in the stainless or glue it with adhesive or anything like that. Once we get our Granite counter top and tile back splash in it should look fairly decent.

No I am NOT pleased with the OTR situation or DUH I wouldn't be changing it. My original question back in Dec/Jan was the effectiveness of hoods vs pop-ups since I need one or the other. My house is stinky all the time from cooking with an non-exhausted (ie recirculating) OTR micro hood. And, before you ask, no the hood cannot be exhausted outside due to the length of the ductwork that needs to be installed. I hate that every time I put a question on this forum I have to explain why I am asking a question. Can't someone just answer a question? And frankly, no, I could care LESS what people think, but the entire purpose of this forum is to ask for people's opinions about how well things work and how well they like their appliances, yes? But thanks so much for your "suggestion". I was just hoping that someone had an answer to my question.

I posted a thread about this range a few months ago (can't find it now to link for you) and the general response was not enthusiastic, more on the theory that the microwave part is likely to fail sooner than the rest of the range (although I'm not so sure that's true these days, when no appliance seems to last as long as one would wish).

I had a micro convection that I bought before my daughter was born (she is 24). It was a Sears and over $700 in the early 80s. Big on the outside but on the inside too. Used the combination cooking for t-day turkey, brisket, roasts, casseroles, and used the convection for baking. It was wonderful even if it sucked up all my counter space. When I literally couldn't fit in on the counter in this house, my daughter inherited it for her kitchenette. When it died last year I replaced it (for her) with a Maytag since installing otr was not an option. The one time I used it I was disappointed. Am redoing my kitchen now, and wanted induction range, double ovens, warming drawer and micro convection. However, I have no solid walls for wall mounted ovens and have only electricity in the house (no gas) so I think I am going with a Electrolux drop in range which has convection and a second oven down low and a miele speed oven micro convection. If you ever use the micro-convection combination, you will restrict your straight micro use to popcorn only. I love it and look forward to having it again.