Hey Squeak,
I use the 2000 and 740 both a couple nights a week and have a freind that plays six nights a week at one of the top restaurants in Baltimore and uses the same rig--they're aready appearing on lots of stages. Personally, I like the speakers because I use them for monitoring purposes instead of packing along a larger monitor speaker. They're real handy when your main speakers are 40 feet apart. I liked both the 740 and 2000 enough to buy back-up machines for both. Yes, I currently own two each of the 740 and 2000. When I'm on a job I also take a spare mixer/amp head, spare mics and spare cables. To me, not taking these things along is like playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun. I've had keyboards suddenly stop working, amp heads dropped dead and even a few bad cables and mics. When you have spares, you can take a short break, plug in the spare and you're back in business. When you don't have the spares, the person that booked you for the wedding, private party, corporate party or night club gig will have a conversation with their attorney the next morning, and their lawyer will be sending you a letter the next day. As for the quality of the Yamaha keyboards, the quality of the voices and the vareity to styles, I still consider them tops. I spent four hours at Washington Music playing more than a dozen different boards, some that sold for nearly $5,000, and right out of the box, the yamaha sounded better than all of them. The only experience I've had with casio is a few of their mid-price boards, and while the styles were great, the individual voices, sax, pianos, etc, sounded like crap. Don't know about the rest of you, but I'll stick with the Yamahas. God, I just wrote a book. Sorry guys.