Keep in mind that Pro keyboards only make up a minuscule fraction of arranger keyboard sales and if the manufacturers had to survive on what we, as performer/entertainers consume they would have gone out of business a long time ago. Several years ago there was an entire thread about this and if I recall correctly, pro musicians only purchased about 1/10th of 1 percent of all the arranger keyboards worldwide and less than 10 percent of the synths. All the rest were procured by home players - just like organs. Essentially, sports fans, we're pretty much like a speck of fly poop in a mountain of pepper.

Bill, I have played the S-970 and loved it, and got to play the T-5 here during the last Synthzone Jam. But, I also loved every other keyboard I've owned during the past 30 years - I loved em all! I loved the TOTL and MOTL keyboards alike. Loved those with onboard sound systems and those without. I guess I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to arranger keyboards.

Chas, I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to cars, too. To me, they're just something to transport me from point A to point B reliably. I really don't care what they look like as much as I care about the reliability. That's why I still drive a 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan with 155,000 miles on it and still going strong after 10 plus years. It does exactly what I want it to do - just like ALL the arranger keyboards I've owned over the past 3 decades. Hell, I even have the same wife after 54 years, though I think she's having second thoughts since my health went to Hell. Damned pills do some nasty things to ya!