Well, I'm sure they are, from my perspective and for what I used the casios for. The sound is to a great degree subjective and so I'd leave that up to the individual listener. But I had no trouble with what I heard from the WK1800. The WK3000 offers many more, but I only needed a few decent ones (AP's and EP's) to get me by. Keep in mind, I was not performing with this keyboard. I wound up selling them both over time to help be pay for me Motif ES7, and when I get the chance to, I'm going to re-purchase a WK1800.

Perhaps the WK3000 is better than the WK1800. But I really didn't find the sound quality a great deal better, nor did I care for the mod button, nor the no line out. SM card was nice, but disk was OK. the drawbar on the WK3000 was cute, but the WK1800's sufficed for my purposes.

I just think if money is a critical point, and the guy is a newbie, that the WK1800 should be considered. Ha could probably get one for under 200 bucks maybe even under 150? Of course it will most likely be used though. But there's many out there barely used ya know?

Anyhow... peace
Bob
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