I know it's not built to fall apart in your hands Ian. I know it's designed for the home user. The S-900 is a good sounding arranger.., I'll agree to that. When looking at the bigger picture it's price sure as hell does not match it's "physical build quality".

I think the PSR S series are some nice sounding arrangers.., but I don't think it's asking too much that if Yamaha's going to tack on that price tag to build it a little better for you guys.

I HAVE played the S-900 myself. I was surprised to find out how many are actually in my area (was pleased to see this too). I was blown away by the sound quality of the S-900. Yamaha did a damn fine job too at fine tuning the S-900's sound to those internal speakers (that I give them an A++ on). IMO it just felt kinda cheap "physically".