Back to the thread topic.. please.

Okay, the Audya has landed. Frank gave us a little glimmer of what's what with the Audya, and I (and others), immediately opened that 'can of worms' and unabashedly (more like ferociously ) provided our "objective" opinions about what WE thought about the Audya. >> Hey, if we keep giving these manufacturers i.e. Ketron, Yammie, or whoever, a free pass and just gush all over whatever they happen to release to the public do you really think they (the manufacturers) will ever find it necessary to "change their ways"?? Not on your life. Especially if we continue to just accept whatever they happen to "pop" out the door and then gladly throw our hard earned money "down the drain" on every sub-par keyboard they happen to push off on us. The way we, the consumer, can "hold them to the fire" is to "hold off" from giving them our hard earned money. Then and ONLY then will they finally take it to heart and start giving their customers and 'potential' customers what they want and desire in an arranger keyboard. WE, the consumer, hold the very life blood of them (as a company) in our hands and the only way things will change to our satisfaction is if we "vote" with our wallets. That's how things change in government and just assuredly as in the private sector as well. And if you don't like what has been 'voted' in by Ketron's higher ups, you can do everything in your power to try and change the circumstances by voting them, or it, out. If Ketron won't change, you then have multiple options of other arranger keyboard companies to choose from and which hopefully will be more willing to listen to you - the consumer. If Ketron goes belly up it won't be the consumers fault as we all know. It will unfortunately be Ketron's stubborn unwillingness to provide adequate and desirable products that consumers are interested in buying in "mass". If they don't know how to provide such products, it probably won't be long before they shutter their doors or are bought out by one of the other companies, like Korg, who does know how to produce such desirable products apparently.

I know I'm being hard on Ketron; just like I've been hard on Yamaha in the past, or any other keyboard company who tries to shaft the public i.e. the consumer, by putting out products that I, for one, feel are sub-par feature wise, and/or outrageously priced, and/or shoddily built, etc. I keep looking for Audya's good points and I have found some. But in my opinion, the positives just can't seem to outweigh the negatives regarding the Audya (for me anyway) and there is no other one to blame for this predicament than Ketron themselves.

I will be the first one to say when a product is commendable, or excellent, and/or worthy of every cent the company is asking for it. But I cannot, with a clear conscience, do so regarding the Audya unfortunately. Maybe others can, and I wish them well if they happen to get the Audya. But until Ketron can prove to me that the Audya is up to snuff with that of the competition (both sound, structurally, and feature wise) I will unfortunately have to pass on the Audya until such a time.

All the best,
Mike

[This message has been edited by keybplayer (edited 05-04-2009).]