I bought the Panasonic SD 2501 at Bridgetown Retravision , after a lot of research. No regrets.
It's whisper quiet, and bakes a beautiful loaf. I've so far made a herb and garlic loaf, plain white loaf and today a rye load. They were all fabulous. I didn't use premixes, the recipes in the book that comes with it are easy to follow, and the machine does the rest. Have had Breville in the past, but this machine is outstanding

The SD-2501 is a fantastic breadmaker. It has a very easy to use menu and the provided instruction manual has a lot of useful information and recipes. The bread it has made is excellent.

But there is one important caveat. DO NOT use dried fruit or nuts that are not soft. We decided to try the banana bread recipe that uses banana flakes. It seems the diamond-fluro coating is extremely thin and we now have circular wear rings in the base of the bread pan after baking this recipe once in our almost new breadmaker.

To be fair it is noted on page 14 of the manual that "Using large, hard seeds may scratch the coating of
the dispenser and bread pan."

It’s a great bread maker And has been absolutely perfect cooking bread or making pizza dough nearly every day, but after 5y the paddle and pan have lost their non stick coating and motor on pizza mode seems to have lost grunt. The toss up is will the next one loose it’s coating

I'm on my second of these and they perform very well. The downside is that the non-stick coating in the pan and on the paddle don't seem to last. I make a loaf every other day, usually multigrain type flour and I guess the hard seeds are too much for the coating. When this happened with my first unit I was torn between buying a new breadpan and paddle (for around $200 or so) or an entire new unit for around $300. In the end I bought the new unit. Now after a couple of years the same thing has happened. As much as I want to stick with Panasonic, I can't keep doing this. I'll give the cheaper Breville unit a try and see whether that non stick lasts longer.

I loving making bread. this machine very easy to use basically two steps. you put ingredients in and take it out nice and fresh bread ready. Machine will get everything else done for you.

Love this breadmaker- does a perfect loaf every time! The quick loaf is great & takes less than 2 hours. You can also use the pizza dough setting to make your own bread rolls or cheese & bacon rolls etc. I highly recommend this.

One things though, the delay timer, in the way it works, you cant delay 13 hours, basically in 13 hours bread is made already, so delaying time is only 13 hour - length of bread cycle you choose to make. But happy with the machine and amazing bread! the recepies, not following them, I found a mix flower bread, and choose cycle only, easy recipe themselfs dont quite work

Got this for MIL during covid lock down.
It Makes good Bread!
Easy to clean, and compact.
Can make just the right amount of bread.
Nice that can add raisins and nuts intermittently.
Adaptable to different recipes.

Bought this 2 weeks ago. Love this Panasonic, but disappointed when seeing prices other people paid in April $247 at JBHifi and similar price at Harvey Norman in June I was charged ,$349 shameful JB coronavirus exploitation. Anyway I love this breadmaker much better than my previous one.

Love love! We make bread everyday. Fantastic machine. Makes breadmaking so simple, takes less than 5 minutes then you just press a button and in a few hours a large loaf of gorgeous bread emerges. Wow.

This bread maker is easy to use and makes a lovely loaf of bread.

We find that we get better results if we use a little less than the suggested amount of yeast - otherwise the loaf can be a bit too light and fluffy for our tastes, (and also makes it hard to slice).

It's footprint is reasonably compact but bare in mind it is quite tall if you will be storing it in a cupboard.

It is quiet in operation, and is easy to clean.

The cycle times can be a bit long - up to 5 hours - but the result is a better loaf so it's worth it.

Did quite some research to select this bread maker and it delivers as expected.
Easy to use, clear instructions, and preset function is really useful to set overnight and wake up to a fresh loaf the next morning. Makes good pizza dough and allows addition of lots of ingredients include seeds, cheese, etc.
Only critique is the loaf size is a little unwieldy for the kids sandwiches.

This is my second bread maker and have found it the best. I bake bread at least twice a week and wouldn't be without it. It is so easy to use and bakes each loaf perfectly no matter which type I bake. It is also great for doing the dough for rolls. It is quite light to lift so easy to put in and out of the cupboard and is also far quieter than my previous machine. Would not hesitate in recommending it to anyone

Timer makes it so much easier for morning fresh bread, great form wholemeal, white bread. it's about 6 thin slices for a loaf of bread. I made pizza dough every second week and it is ready within 45 minutes, for a family of 2 adults and 2 kids.