Elizabeth, I am not sure what you meant by this,
"JOHN C...Reading the opinions of your two musician friends...Having never heard a Tyros-3 in person, just on You Tube, comparing it to a 7K just does not cut it for me..."

If you are referring to the test I did with my Bose Compact PA -- The two musicians were myself another another man and we had a Tyros 3 and a Kn7000 present. The comparison was made so that we might learn. We both love and understand the differences between both keyboards, each offers somethin different.

John C.