LG makes good appliances even under the Kenmore brand. Samsung makes good TV’s but their refrigerators tend to break after a couple of years(they get leaks in their compressors and/or the heat exchanger/evaporative tubing). Samsung’s phones are good. The Samsung stoves and laundry equipment are built like tanks but are also uber expensive.
My son(21 year old & our techie) says that Samsung phones are the best. My 35 year old daughter (other techie) convinced her mother and I to buy Google Pixel phones. I am on my second(Google Pixel 2). It is incredible, especially the camera.
I have known a local appliance dealer for 25 years. He convinced me to buy Whirlpool/Amana/Maytag/KitchenAid kitchen appliances. FYI, these are all one company now. All of them are made in the same factory in Iowa. They just put different names on them, like Kenmore. My first French door fridge said Amana on the outside and Maytag on the inside. \
The other really good kitchen appliance brand is Bosch. However, my appliance dealer friend said that their dishwashers, while very good and quiet are much harder to repair than the KitchenAid.
Fifteen years ago he convinced me to buy a Fischer Paykel washing machine. It was a top loader with a direct drive motor. No belts. It spins at 10000 rpms. Clothes come out slightly damp. It lasted 6 years. The board died. It would have been $250 just for the part. So, we bought another one. Same thing, after 7 years it died. SO, this time we bought a Speed Queen. I did not know they even made residential machines. They make the machines you see in laundry mats. We have had that for 4 months. It is made in the USA. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, a friend bought a new dryer. They gave us their 20 year old Maytag dryer. I took off the back panel and cleaned it out with the shop vac. I replaced the lint screen collector with a new one from applianceparts.com for $39. It is like new. Plus it is made so much better than the new ones.