A lot depends on your NEEDS...

I must admit, my needs have always been a bit skewed to most here. I want a GREAT arranger, but I also want a GREAT WS too. And I would prefer them both to be the same piece of gear..! Less to have to lug around, less to have to learn differently, if your arranger and WS are from different manufacturers, less to obscure you while you play.

For basic arranger/WS use, I think I have found the best keyboard so far, but there ARE starting to be some things either now or on the horizon which might finally do a better job. Plus, I think I've wrung my G70 reasonably dry!

But I think I'm still hopeful something ground-breaking will come out, the final mind-meld of the arranger and the WS/Looper/Arpeggiator, so I am in no frantic rush. The PA3X76 is about the closest thing so far, but without Karma, it still falls pretty short compared to the Kronos. There is also much I like in the Ketron's OS - an albeit basic arpeggiator, but an arpeggiator nonetheless, key triggered phrases, audio streaming, Break/Fills for each Variation etc., but they need to up the bar on the audio track feature before it isn't simply a great idea, incompletely realized.

You know, in the long run, the thing that, at least on the arranger side makes for the greatest longevity for me has been the editing and style creation tools. I honestly think most of us end up looking for another arranger because we get bored with hearing the same styles over and over and over again! But if you have idiot-proof, mind-blowingly simple tools in the arranger to quickly change the SOUND of a style into something newer, different, fresher, and possibly have something like the SRX expansion slots so you can add in in utterly new sounds without chucking the whole arranger away, you can avoid this boredom factor in a big way.

My Roland's Cover Tools (which can quickly revoice an entire style to be, for instance, more electro-pop or more acoustic in nature with one button press) and the Makeup Tools which allow you to edit the Style's headers in an utterly easy and intuitive and QUICK way have made for contentment over the long haul more than anything.

Struggling or having to work hard to achieve this tends to make you not do it, and simply go look for the latest model (where someone else has already done this work!)! It's an often overlooked, under-appreciated aspect of an arranger, IMO.

Sadly, both the Korg and the Ketron both fall way short of the Roland in this area. So, I keep my old behemoth, and wait patiently....

And wait... and wait... and wait... and wait... and wait... and wait...