I own a Roland EM20 and I like many of the voices, so I was excited when I heard about the EM55. I played two of them in two different stores and I found that it was very similar to the EM20, just a greater quatity of the same voices,, sigh. I also agree with George, that the price is too high. On one of the EM55's I tried (it had just come in, and I saw the rep taking it out of the box) styles 81 - 88 did not work. If your really interested, give it a good test. The other EM55 I tried did not have this problem.