I have a VA5 and love it. I lent it to my friend who has a G1000 and he says he would never buy my VA5 to replace his G1000 for a variety of reasons, the most suprising being that he feels the G1000 sounds and styles are better than VA5/7. I think the VA5/7 are very underrated keyboards. Their sounds are as good as Tyros and their styles and key feel are better than Tyros in my opinion.