Bill, I am not knocking Wersi for their quality ,I imagine with the workforce that they have they can only produce X amount a year and so sell accordingly, and so the reason for the high price .Wersi do have an established name, but the product they sell now is a quality board with international sounds, which is the way the other manufacturers are starting to go. Lets just suppose that Yamaha brought out the 9000ABC pro new model and was pc based,and at half the price of Ikarus the pro,s would buy it (possibly) and carried on making the psr systems for the home market.the sound quality gap between the pro boards is narrowing. Technics dealership held rigid to their prices even though they made good boards and look what happened to them,Mike

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