After reading many posts about Yamaha's most recent keyboards, I find myself asking.. "are we being too hard on Yamaha?" Granted many of the complaints regarding the PSR-2000 were more than justified, but are users asking a bit much? I'm not trying to jump on any toes, but maybe we ask a little too much in some areas. Yamaha like all other makers cheese out on build quality to add more features and to keep cost down to both them and the consumer. Aside from some of the bugs and so forth, they really pack a lot into these keyboards for the price. Yamaha in no way ever intended for the PSR-2000 to be in the professional market. It's just below their pro line, so of course some corners are going to be cut, but for $1,199.00 it's a great deal as far as sound quality and features. I look at my Yamaha PSR-550 and I have to hand it to Yamaha. I only paid $460.00 for that keyboard and for that price it kicks ass! I can't think of ANY other keyboard that even comes close to the 550 in terms of sound quality and features. It is still the best in its class. The PSR-2000 is the same way. It's the only board that offers that much for the price...... I could understand if the 2000 was marketed as a professional keyboard and built like it is now. Then I too would say "clean it up Yamaha", but it's not in the pro category (even though it has the features and performs in that category). The keyboard world has and most likely always will consider keyboards with speakers to be 2nd class even if they are better than a lot of pro synths. That's been the opinion for years. Only recently have pro arrangers been featured in keyboard magazines with good reviews. Heck, even the Casio MZ-2000 graced the cover of a magazine and turned heads. It's nothing new that Yamaha makes buggy keyboards... Some of their past models were nightmares, but I think they have made a huge improvment..... If I offended anyone I apologize.. Just my opinion on the matter...

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