ANDIS PHENOM CORDED/CORDLESS CLIPPER #562312 vs WAHL 5-STAR SENIOR 2.0 BRUSHLESS #3027984

A brushless clipper built to be worked on rather than replaced. The Phaze blade detaches and adjusts, the housings and grips swap out, and it runs corded or cordless, so a chair that needs it plugged in all day is not a problem. At 7,000 SPM it is a steady cutter rather than the fastest in the catalogue, and the brushless motor is the part that keeps it that way over time.

The Senior 2.0 rebuilds the blend-and-fade workhorse around an 8,000 RPM brushless motor with Adaptive Speed Control, which Wahl states adjusts motor speed to the hair type. Against the Senior it replaces: brushless instead of rotary, 2.5 hours of runtime instead of 80 minutes, and seven guides instead of three. It carries a premium over both that Senior and the Magic Clip, and what the premium buys is torque and uptime rather than a different cut.