At least someone read my post as written, and didn't read anything else into it...

Look, I hear altogether too many Technics owners lament the company going belly up, and wishing for new models. Obviously, even THEY have come to regard them as starting to slip to the back of the pack when it comes to the quality of sounds used in the styles.

I made NO comment about the OS, or any other aspects, other than to praise the style itself (not good enough for you? ), but to question the sounds it played. Casio-like? MAYBE not quite, but noticeably inferior to YK&R. Velocity switched drum sounds and larger ROM sizes have pushed realism into new territories since Technics 'went away'. And, I'm sorry, but that recording did nothing but emphasize the strengths of Technics for the listener (not the operator), being the styles, and expose their weakness, again for the listener, of the sounds used by the style. I have, and made, NO comments about the OS or playing experience. I've sat in on a couple of older Technics (what other kind is there? ) but only briefly, hardly long enough to get a good feel for their strong and weak operational aspects, and this was a long time ago, so for the time, they sounded pretty good. I'm not a bigband player much, so the styles didn't make me want to go out and buy one (I wasn't using arrangers much back then, anyway, at least not as arrangers), but for the time is sounded OK...

But time marches along, away from Technics funeral, where they lie, immobile. I'm sorry you felt the need to rush to their defense, I'm sorry you felt the need to read more into my post that I actually wrote, but I stand by my comment. Regardless of the style (which I PRAISED) or the operational aspects, were I faced with eternity having to listen to those sounds, now that I am aware they can be MUCH better, yes, I think I WOULD think I had been banished to the 'other place'!