Vegas-
There is no way I'd get mad at your opinion- and neither should anyone else!!!! Your opinion (like mine and everyone elses) should be respected and I definetly respect your opinion.

The MS2000 really impressed me on the surface. I must say that I didn't get right into the guts of the machine so to speak (checking out parameters and modulation routings etc).

I must fix up a mistake I made in my initial post- the MS20 is only monophonic- I confused it with the much more simpler (and newer) Korg Mono/Poly which I think has 'pseudo' polyhony of up to 4 voices.

I myself totally agree with you about build qaulity. Sadly, Korg and other companies are not at all interested in building gear in a robust fashion anymore- the rack mount version of the MS2000 (which I would love to own!) is not very well built at all! This is one of the reasons why I think it's price is so much lower than the keyboard version (which has the wood panelling and all that for the 'retro' feel!!!!).