Is it the motor that is noisy or an unbalanced load causing the machine to vibrate against its housing?

Noisy motor, you may have to replace machine - unbalanced load vibrating, pre-sort whilst loading.

The machine is a couple of years old. To me it is every spin cycle and not an uneven load. I have tried to make the load even.

Lee, is there some way you could screw machine down to floor to stop vibration?

I just checked, and it is solid as....screwed down. I think it appears to be movement in the drum. Darn.

I don't know what sort of system top loaders have to absorb vibration, but I know our front loader at home has 3 struts that allow movement of the drum. The struts have grease on them but after a few years they can get a bit dry which results in the machine vibrating. I tipped the washing machine on it's side, removed the base cover (about 20 screws) and wiped the struts clean then applied new grease.

Thank you