This is getting nasty and I don't like it.

A few comments:
I have just re-read Fran's comments in this thread, and nowhere did I see a single stab at the Tyros2 owners. He did say "If I were a Tyros owner, I would swap", but IMHO, he is just expressing his own preference for one instrument over another, as someone who has tried both. In fact, this is very much in keeping with the rest of his review, where he is saying that he is providing his own subjective evaluation of the G70.

I don't see the reasons for the over-sensitive responses of the Yamaha devotees, other than the possiblity that Fran's post hits a sore nerve with them.

If anything, Fran's comments are somewhat of a putdown of the G70, as compared to the old G1000 and the Discover5. However, to me they seem quite objective (for a keyboard review), and I read them with great interest.

In the past there has been some animosity here between the devotees of various keyboards. While some of the Roland afficionados (mostly from Europe) had been obviously nasty in their putdowns of other brands, I don't recall any such comments from Fran. It is well known that he prefers Roland sound, much as Scott Yee may prefer Yamaha sound, or someone else may like the Korg or Technics sound better. Indeed, most of Fran's posts indicate this preference. Nonetheless, while I recall a number of his comments about other brands being tongue-in-cheek, I don't feel that any of them were offensive to individuals, any more than my own comments about the heavy weight (or insufficient polyphony or only 61 keys) of some of the newere crop of arrangers was a putdown to any one individual.

While I share Fran's preference for the Roland sound, there is no love-in between us. We have disagreed on a number of occasionis in the past. However, I do respect Fran and his opinions, the same as I respect the opinions of most other old (and new) members of this forum, all for the reason that I learn a lot from their posts.

Please remember that there is no perfect arranger, which will satisfy everyone (at least not yet). With each instrument you have some advantages and some shortcomings. Reading the opinions of others about those should help us all evaluate these for ourselves. It should also help the manufacturers understan what we, the users, want, and hopefully come up with the better instruments in the future. That's why the discussions and disagreements are good, but the nasty and offensive posts are not.

BTW, I truly think that it is childish for someone to pick up his toys and leave just because some knucklehead had offended him in their posts - when that happens, we all lose out. However, it is responsibility of each one of us to speak up when we see uncivil, offensive, nasty stuff in a post.

Regards