I'm gonna help deflect some of the heat for you Tom and take some of it for myself ( LOL ) with this but I agree with your assessment of the board.. almost completely in fact. There is nothing wrong with my 2000 either. It sounds pretty similar to the 740 I replaced it with. The only thing we might differ on is the guitar sounds. The acoustics are pretty good, but I don't care for the electrics whatsoever. I had better ones on my M1 which was made what..15 years ago already ? I bought this keyboard for live play though, and I think it could probably be useful for me in that capacity.., but now that I have finally figured out the OS of my PA80, I would rather use it instead. I find many of the 2000s internal sounds, however, to be virtually useless for any serious recording. I wish I still had the option of returning mine. Still, I'm contemplating putting it up for sale and using the funds toward a good module ( probably a Roland ). The only other point I will comment on were the Casio sounds. I don't know from the W1800, but I had the MZ2000 and I like many of its sound better than the PSR2000s. ( Ok I'm ducking now.... sorry but that's what I hear anyway) The MZ had other issues though, so it's now gone. Still, if I were not looking for a module at this point, I'd seriously consider a straight up trade with someone to go back to the MZ from my PSR2000
I also agree with Don M on this one Tom. I doubt that you will find the sounds in the 9000 to be a whole lot better. It seems to me that you, like me, might not be a big fan of Yamaha sounds in general Tom ( at least the ones from their arrangers ).
Korg AJ
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