What is a better blender? The vitamix or the champ blender?

I believe both blenders are about equal. I have used the Champ HP 3 and the Vitamix 4500 blender side by side for testing, and I can say they produce about the same result, when I made smoothies and ground flax seeds into powder. I can say that the vitamix container did hold a bit more (was larger). The vitamix stays on until you turn it off, whereas the champ has timed cycles, and will automatically cut off after a programmed amount of time. They are BOTH very powerful blenders, and beat the pants off department store blenders.. I personally liked the champ because it seemed I could control the speed much better... It has 10 speeds and I could SEE on the readout how FAST the blender was going (nice for us techie types). With the vitamix 4500, there was only LO and HI speeds. The ktec also has a longer warranty, and 3 peak horsepower.