Well, to be accurate, I had heard/read that Agazzani made a fine bandsaw and i lot of people thought they were tops, but I was not speaking from personal experience. i've only owned hitachi bandsaws."I was originally looking at Agazzani, as Chris had rated these bandsaws very highly in one of his posts. Unfortunately Agazzani have shut up shop and manufacturing moved to Germany when they were bought out by Panhans who have in turn been bought out by Hokubema. The machines made by Panhans, are very good, however as there are no reps here in Oz, we ruled that out as an option."
It's too bad that some of these various German manufacturers do not have a more international presence. I guess it is a dollars and cents issue, investment vs return type of thing.