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love. perfect radius. the reviewer who made the detailed comparisons was present. and I'm picky. installed it myself.

this show head is awesome. so in one state it's illegal to order from a local store because of the amount of water they use...let me say i'm going to give up my lawn to be clean!!! I like this.

if it was made of metal I would have given it 5 stars. I think it's overpriced considering it's plastic. the water flow is strong which is a plus.

this shower head is amazing. however after struggling through hundreds of reviews of other shower heads and buying 4 other really well-reviewed ones before this one and not being happy i realized that shower head reviews are very individualized very personal and usually useless. some people say good things some say bad things about their showers. i now see that bad reviews could be a result of bad installation bad water pressure a defective unit a shower not meeting someone's very specific preferences that i may not share with them etc.; while good reviews can be from someone who's just happy to replace a 30-year old head that is severely deficient. it's just hard to tell. so i thought i'd write a review here in an attempt to give as much information as possible so you can make the best decision on your shower head. first off some specifics about my situation:- i am 6'0" 195 and i like showers that provide good wide coverage- i like a lot of water flow as it creates a pleasant showering experience and also helps me take a quick shower and get on with my day; as such i removed water flow restrictors from every head i tried- on the power spectrum of "being drizzled on" to "standing under a fire hose" i'm pretty center or maybe a bit right of center towards the fire hose; i like a decent amount of power and pressure from the shower head but too much and i feel like i'm being stung; too little and i feel like i'm not getting clean- i don't like overhead ceiling-mounted "rain" showers because for some reason i'm always bending my head out of the downpour; i prefer water to hit me on the shoulders and back of my neck and i can choose when to put my face into the water; in addition wall-mounting a rain head doesn't work for me either as rain heads don't provide the pressure/power combo that i'd like and the water droops down in an arc that doesn't widen sufficiently for me- the water pressure in my house is fine and every shower head i installed (i tried 4 before settling on this one) was installed properly with no leaking coming from any joints- my house has all grohe showers so my wife was very adamant that when i replaced the existing bad shower head in my bathroom that i look for a grohe to replace it. i wasn't thrilled about this as i've seen great things from delta and moen but happy wife happy life so grohe it was.ok now to the nitty gritty. when our shower was built the builder installed the grohe grandera: grohe 26035000 euphoria grandera massage shower headthis thing is awful and the bath1 reviews bear it out. awful flow no power no width of spray and a super clunky interface. i barely even felt wet when showering and the process of changing settings was just the worst. just not what i was looking for. i immediately wanted a change.so i googled "high flow shower head" and bath1 led me to the showermaxx premium for just $28: showermaxx premium shower head - luxury spa rainfall high pressure 6" | removable water restrictor | high flow rain fixed showerhead in polished chrome finish | bring the spa to your homethis one was pretty good to be honest. good water flow but i could have used more pressure from the jets. where it failed was that the spray coming out of the head never widened. so it was just a 6" wide stream of water hitting my back. i felt like i wanted to feel a wider coverage from the spray. what ultimately killed this one was that it failed the wife test because it wasn't a grohe so it had to go back.next i tried the grohe new tempesta 4-spray: new tempesta 100 4-spray showerheadthis one was just ok. decent power decent flow decent widening of the spray but nothing was great. it had rain rain o2 jet and massage sprays. rain and rain o2 were where i spent most of my time and i just never felt satisfied. rain didn't feel like enough power or water and rain o2 felt like a bit more power but same problem of not enough water (it's just an aerated rain spray). jet was a very uncomfortable needle-like feel and massage was pretty useless. i felt like the showermaxx was a better experience and i knew i could find a grohe that worked. this just wasn't the one. i figured maybe i needed more nozzles or a wider spray face perhaps?so then i tried the grohe power & soul 190 4-spray: power and soul 190 4-spray showerheadthis one was a step in the right direction. many more nozzles and a wider face meant wider coverage. however this again failed the power test. similar to the tempesta it only had 4 spray patterns (rain rain o2 bokoma and jet) none of which were satisfying enough. on this one i just felt that there wasn't enough flow and i wasn't getting wet enough. while this was close i still felt i could do better because a shower should feel awesome not just ok. i figured maybe i needed something out of the grohe 4-spray pattern that would help me because rain and rain o2 weren't cutting it.so then i finally landed on this model the relexa rustic 100 5-spray.the second i hooked it up and turned it on i literally gasped started dancing and immediately stripped down and took a shower. after weeks of agony i was done! this one answered all my issues and then some. what i think was a game-changer on this one was that it had a "normal" spray setting which is just a normal shower like you'd expect in a nice hotel which is much better than the rain spray. there are also rain jet massage and champagne settings i believe. what i really like about this one is that you can run the full spectrum between settings. on the other grohe models you had to pick between settings and be 100% on that setting. here it's a continuous knob that you turn so you can be 35% on one setting and 65% on the next. that way you can fine tune the setting where you want it. admittedly with this one set to 100% normal i felt like it was a bit too powerful and had a minor stinging feeling. no issue: i just turned the knob a bit to the right and it softened the flow by like 10% and now i'm set. so to recap my checklist:- power/pressure? check (almost too much even but it's tune-able)- water flow? check. i feel like there is a ton of water and the best indicator is that i'm able to take my quick showers and feel fully showered and clean- spray width? check. this spray widens really nicely to where some of it is hitting the bottom of my neck and some is hitting my lower back. gives it a great feel.- ability to fine tune? check. this is perhaps the best feature of this product that i didn't even know about before buying it. but the ability to custom-tune it to your exact specification based on what you like is the best.so while this may not be for everyone if you're anything like me and my preferences then you should give this one a shot!