I would consider my woodworking more than a hobby but less than a professional shop. I logged 651 shop hours on the kitchen below.
I would tend to agree with most of the comments on here that the Grizzly equipment offers the best bang for your buck. I'm sure that there is better equipment but your going to have to pay more for it. I would tend to assume that since you are hanging out on a site like this your probably pretty handy with a wide range of tools and can take the time to make some adjustments and true up / dial in the equipment. As far as my grizzly tools go...
G1026 (3hp shaper): This was my first piece of new equipment I bought. That was over 15 years ago and the machine still works fine. I will admit that across all of my spindle shapers that the spindle lock for vertical adjustment seems to be a bit weak and tends to let the spindle settle while in use. I usually overcome this by picking a setting with the heavy part of the adjustment wheel on the bottom. But this machine can run a raised panel bit all day long with no struggle. Buy the extension wing.
G1035 (1.5hp shaper): This machine lives with a stacked rail and stile cutter on it all the time. Buy the extension wing, you won't regret it. It suffers the same spindle lock problem but its not the end of the world. Overall a smooth machine to operate.
G4176: (1/4 hp power feed): I keep this mounted on my 1.5 hp shaper to feed my door stiles. The bottom locking adjustment to keep the feeder from rotating never worked real well. I usually have to give the adjustment handle a few hits of a mallet to get it tight enough. This power feeder is fast, too fast. I bought the slow speed kit for it trying to slow it down. It improved it but I should have spent more money and just got a variable speed one from the start. I have fed a lot of material using this machine.
G0490: (8" jointer with 4 knife head): I had trouble with this machine throwing the pulley off of the motor shaft initially. My dad noticed that there was another threaded hole in the pulley to allow for a second set screw. We installed that and haven't had an issue since. It does not like to be run without the dust collector on. This machine has milled a lot of lumber for me but I would probably admit that this was one of my regrets in a tool purchase. It seemed like a lot of money (and it still kind of is) but I should have got a 12" jointer with an indexed carbide cutter head.
G0544: (20" carbide tooth planer): This is a work horse of a machine. The carbide teeth are the way to go. You will never have to fuss around setting knives again. If you do hit a piece of steel you just spin the teeth around and your back in business. It is sooooo much quieter than a comparable knife head. It does require a pretty healthy dust collector (2hp is kind of small). I think the adjustable bed rollers are nice.
Grizzly 2 HP dust collector: This lives quietly above the roof of my shop. The only thing we have done is cut the little grate off the intake side of the collector. It would occasionally get plugged by larger chips.
I would stay away from any pipe clamps from grizzly. I haven't had any good luck with them. Stay with Pony or Bessey. I would not waste a dime on the mobile bases you can get for these machines. They just seem to under preform.
If your looking for a table saw I would hands down look at saw stop. I bought one of them when they first came out 10 years ago. It is the smoothest, most accurate table saw I have ever used.
Happy Woodworking