Hi there!!!
My name is Gustavo, I'm from Argentina...
I have a problem...!!!
My old keyboard is dead... he past to better life some months ago... It was a Yamaha PSR-520... Yes a very old keyboard!!! And now I need to upgrade to a much better keyboard...like a Yamaha PSR-3000 or something like that...
I already know that the Casio MZ-2000 is out of production, but to tell the truth, here in Argentina all the keyboards are very very very overpriced... with very litle or almost no support from their respectives brands...
For example: the PSR-3000 is at U$$2000!!!
Motif ES7 is at u$$4000!!!???? Yes U$$4000!!!! Incredible isn't???
Ok, the thing is that the other day I was searching in several music stores asking about the PSR-3000... it's very hard to find it here!!! Believe me!! So, in one of the musical stores I found a Casio MZ-2000 for U$$1000 (I know that's really overpriced too!!!) but wait there's more!!! Of course this keyboard isn't new...is't a demo unit... with some details... for example one of the corners of the keyboard is a litle open, but this detail doesn't seems to be make by a drop off or a hit of somekind...When I saw this unit I must say that I was shocked because I never think to found any of these here in Argentina!!! I play it the Casio in the store and I must say that it seems that all worked very fine to me... The LCD was in perfect conditions and also the keyboard itself... except for the dust!!! and the detail in the corner!!! Well... after that in the store they say me that I could buy it for U$$900 (a U$$100 drop!), they offer me 1 year warranty for the Casio...
And about the PSR-3000 I can't find it for less than U$$2000... that's my $$$ limit too!!!
But this doesn't means that because I can spend U$$2000 in a PSR-3000 I don't want to save U$$1100 going for the Casio MZ-2000...
All I want is a good keyboard... and sadly the PSR-3000 and the Casio MZ-2000 are all my choices...I looked with others like Korg (PA-80, TRITON LE 76), Roland (EXR5, G-70), etc.. but believe it or not... those keyboard in the same category are from +2300 to 3400!!!!!! Yes! You probably may think that I'm crazy!!! But it's all true!!!
Maybe you are thinking WHY I have my doubts between a PSR-3000 (released in 2004) and a Casio MZ-2000 (released in 2000)... apart for the U$$1100 gap between them... That's because I read the specifications of the MZ-2000 and compared to the PSR-3000... the MZ wins with aftertouch, sinth features, and some other features, it's said that it can be tweaked for sound a lot better than the factory settings... but I don't know if the pianos and the other sounds can compete with the PSR 3000 sounds (I don't care about MEGAVOICES because aren't playable!)...even with the tweaks made...
A review in Keyboard Player Magazine puts me in this dilemma!!! Here I left you the following URL to read this review about the MZ-2000: http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/29200/Casio%20MZ-2000.pdf
Thanks for all!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!