Since hearing of the demise of Technics products, my local dealer is ordering all the keyboards and PR units he can, because they are selling quite well in this area. Panasonic extended his credit limit and he is even ordering a second KN7000 for his own personal use plus one for me and the rest for future sales. I will keep my old KN6K as a workhorse for composing and converting and use the KN7K for pleasure. I just don't know where to put the keyboard, since my den barly has room enough for what I have now. What worries me the most is all the new things I have to learn about using the SD card and the process of data storage. The upside of all this is that I will be experiencing the new wonder machine that a lot of you people are now used to, so expect a lot of questions from a person that didn't pay too much attention to all the KN7K postings over the last year, or so. This should be fun!!