Siroflex vs. Delta

Delta is the sensible pick of the big brands: solid heads at fair prices, sold everywhere. Of all the household names, it is the closest thing to a fair fight with the Siroflex Ultra on value. It is still not that close.

Where Delta wins

• Wipe-clean nozzles. Many Delta heads use flexible rubber spray tips you can rub scale off with a thumb, a genuinely good idea for renters who will never soak a shower head in vinegar.
• Options at honest prices. Handhelds, slide bars, multi-mode heads, all at prices that undercut the fancier brands and with big-box availability.
• Matching hardware. Like Moen, Delta can dress the whole bathroom.

Where the Ultra wins

• Spray quality per gallon. The Ultra’s 80 small holes produce a denser, brisker, more even pattern than wide-nozzle faces, and the gap widens on weak plumbing. Rubber-tip faces trade hole precision for cleanability; the Ultra just makes the whole face removable and soakable instead.
• Nothing to perish. Rubber tips harden and split with years and hot water. Plating pits. The Ultra is one piece of LEXAN with neither failure mode, which is how it earns its decades-long reputation.
• Simplicity. No mode dial creeping out of adjustment, no diverter, no internals. One perfect setting.

The verdict

Delta is what we would buy if the Ultra did not exist. The Ultra exists, costs about the same or less, and showers better. Get the Ultra.

More match-ups: Moen, High Sierra, Speakman, or back to all comparisons.