Hey Bill

I'll give you $150 for that KN7000.

But seriously, your point really hits home. Keyboards are like Cars when it comes to depreciation. As soon as you drive it off the lot so to speak it immeadiately has lost much of its resale value. Our only recourse may be in making our Keyboard buying decisions with utmost attention to cost vs. features, company customer support policies, upgrade potential by way hardware/software update ability on the Keyboard, best sounds possible, and all the other advanced features we need, and then KEEP IT!!!! Keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it!! Are you listening UD??

Keep it for as long as you can or until it dies on you! Don't fall into the trap of buying each successive model year after year after year. Korg, Yamaha, Roland and the others would LOVE us to do that needless to say! And I've come to the conclusion and resolve that my next Keyboard purchase will not be done on a whim but will only be done after excruciating research and firsthand extensive demoing, and it has ALL the features I would want and need and ALL the BEST sounds of course. Then and only then will I buy it and then I will KEEP IT!!! And won't purchase one again until it dies or somebody offers me an outlandish price for it.

I'm talking about Arranger Keyboards here.. I also would like to get a regular Workstation Keyboard too but the same scenario will apply there as well.

Best regards,
Mike