Bachus,

I agree to a point; my problem is I haven't heard a Kronos yet. I went upgraded my Motif XS to an XF so I would have the Flash Ram capability for samples and I really could use the extra bank of User sounds. But the Motif has some pretty darn good Synth voices as well and the new Motif XF has some sweet pianos. Plus; we see there are now a flood of new voice libraries being converted to the Motif to exploit the Flash Ram (2gig). I have 4 voice libraries for the Motif that I just cannot live without that do not exist on the Roland or Korg.

With that said, I considered (and still do) the Kronos only because I believe in having a mixture of sounds and diversity in my palette and I would get that from having a Korg on my stand rather than both keyboards being Yamaha's.

I totally agree with you on the Tyros 4. I had purchased the Audya before the Tyros 4 thinking it would work for me; but it just didn't and the T4 is everything I could have hoped for in an arranger.