To me, it seems that the “low price” of the Fusion is not that it is of inferior quality, but a business decision for marketing purposes. I would think that they would want to penetrate the market.

As the discussion in this thread has shown, regardless of which side you take, Alesis does not have a part in the synth/workstation market like Korg, Yamaha and Roland. So in order to get to where the big three are, they have to offer a superior product and at a very competitive price. To me, that is what they are doing with the Fusion. I wish some arranger manufacturers would take a leaf out of that book. Contrast that with Roland coming out with a keyboard like the Fusion, they could easily start at 2500 for that keyboard because they have a large part of the synth/workstation market to play with.

To the other extreme, Korg with their new board has taken their market power in the work/station market too far. That thing is just too over priced and they may not get a good return on it. Even if you have market power, you just have to know when to stop.