Donny.., thank you you've PROVED my point. You're a performer. You need to remember that home players outnumber performers by a large margin. You're looking at it from a performers position. Put yourself on the home players side for once.

That's great if you perform and can see a return on your investment. Just keep in mind that's YOU and I'm willing to bet that if you stopped peforming it would't take you long to realize how arranger players do get ripped off on the high end and mid end (in terms of construction) and prices compared to the semi pro and pro workstation market.

Plus.., I agree that the $1,600 price tag isn't so bad (even though you can still get a semi-pro workstation that's built better for less).., but $1,600 ain't too bad. When you get up into the price range of say a PA-800 and other arrangers that cost more and are built to the same quality of a home keyboard.., well there it's clearly unbalanced.

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 05-14-2009).]