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??

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HI MIKE, you do make good points here.
I want to share with you that even though I was moderator of the Technics Forum and got it going here after Technote closed. I did not buy the KN7000. I had the Kn6000 and I managed with it and did over a year of research on line and with members before actually buying the kn7000. I even had members burn CD's of the KN7 music and mail it to me before I decided. Once the decision was made the next problem was how to buy one without giving the local greed artist 5995.00 list price. After much traveling in the Motorhome I finally was able to purchase this box from Music World in Las Vegas as a total stranger walking in their door and asking the manager for the best price. I was spellbound with the price offered and accepted it on the spot. I haven't seen one sold for less to this day that was new. To find an honest non greedy merchant in Las Vegas in sorta like finding a Genie in a bottle now days.
Incidentaly, the oldest keyboard here in the studio was purchased in 1972 and it is worth double the original price right now according to you know who, our in house Authority, UNCLE DAVE.
Thats it from the sunny shores of Central California. Be looking for all or many of you here May 22/23 for the big SynthZone Jam.
Best to all
Bebop