Would that he took his own honesty to heart...

Not much point buying and dropping two of the TOTL arrangers out there if that's all he wanted. Hell he could have asked ANY of us whether a Korg or Roland work ANYTHING like a Yamaha, and we would ALL have said 'No... nothing like it' (in fact, a few of us did BEFORE he bought them).

The thing I guess most of us are in arms about isn't so much the super-quick bailing on the PA800 and G70, but the stentorian pronouncement of what rubbish these keyboards are, with as cursory an effort as he made to grok them.

The only thing Zuki found out about the Roland was... it wasn't a Yamaha. Duh!

But many of his other comments - glitch styles, piano weak and thin (!) fly directly in the face of common everyday experience of owners and reviewers alike. If someone takes the time and effort to WRITE a review, it would be nice if they simply took the effort to find out if their opinions are based on unfamiliarity. Which I believe Zuki didn't.

As I said earlier... If I went out and spent a day on an S900, didn't ask ANYONE about anything that confused me, or contradicted what I'd been reading about for months, came back and pronounced it rubbish with no more research than that... Well, I'd have most of the Yamaha users (probably Zuki included) up in arms about so cursory a tryout!

Sauce for the goose...