Just to rehash my story... I had my 2000 for about 4 months ( including the 2 months or so it was out for repairs that never came to be ). I wanted to use it in a professional ( live ) setting. I never did get to log very many hours on it. My 2000 came with a woefully defective OS. The settings I stored in the registration memories were often not accurately reproduced when I recalled the registrations. Worst of all the problems was intermittent.. sometimes they recalled correctly and other times they did not, rendering the board totally useless for the purpose I wanted it for in the first place.. reliable live play.

Having come from other PSR boards, I was familiar with the Yamaha OS in general and I was quite certain that this was not a result of my own error. I sent my 2000 out for repair / possible replacement and heard nothing for weeks. After a while the dealer became involved and he loaned me a PSR1000. My suspicions were correct. Everything recalled exactly as I had set it up in the registrations of the 1000.

After evaluating my board, the tech at the Yamaha authorized repair center was in complete agreement with my assessment. He also found other bugs that I was not even aware of. He stated that he had no idea when replacement parts or an updated OS would become avaiilable to him. I contacted Yamaha but got no real help. I put a little more pressure on the dealer, but he also could not get a new board or any meaningful help from Yamaha either.

As there was no resolution in sight, the dealer offered me a full refund. I thought back to my previous repair nightmare with my 740 .. I had waited 11 weeks for repair of a broken pitch wheel because that's how long it took Yamaha to get him an "authorized " Yamaha replacement part. I later discovered that the offending part was a common potentiometer, the equivalent of which can be found at any Radio Shack store. I have a background in electronics. Had I known that this was the problem, I could have made the reapir myself in a few hours or less.

The choice was simple. I got a refund for my 2000 and I've never looked back nor have I regretted not getting a replacement.

I'm glad too. The board felt as flimsy as anything I can ever recall playing on. I have a pretty hard touch when playing at times. It's quite likely that I'd have broken something by now. Also, the OS upgrade fiasco soured me a bit.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 07-28-2002).]