I, personally, have only had a single, failure with any of the Yamaha keyboards I've owned since the PSR-500. In my particular instance it was a small board that held the PSR-3000s midi out connector. I called my local, authorized Yamaha service guy, took the keyboard to him the next day, he told me to go across the street to the local diner and have lunch and when I finished he would have the keyboard ready for me. He was good on his word.

Steve Demming has always been extremely helpful, not just on this forum, but on others I frequent as well. From my perspective he is one of the best service reps I've encountered--ever. If TC Helicon had this type of person working for them they would sell a lot more vocal processors. In fact, if anyone had Steve working for them, they would be a lot better off.

As for the above comment about buttons meeting military specs--you must be kidding! Military specs brought us $800 toilet seats, $500 screw drivers and other, utterly ridiculously overpriced products. If that Fairlight DAW's switches met military specs you couldn't afford it. Hmmmmm! Which military would that be?

Cheers,

Gary