I believe that the audya will do very well in Europe. I think the pricing was about 3800 euros or it may have even come down. It maybe a little harder here in the states due to the euro vs. dollar. As far as sales of the T3 vs sales of the Audya, the T3 will most likely out sell the Audya only because you have more dealers worldwide and yamaha has a lot more marketing muscle. Sound wise I have yet to try the audya but owning so many ketrons in the past (about all of them) my feeling is that it's going to blow the T3, Pa2x out of the water.

As far as repairs and support, I don't believe that any Ketron will have to go to italy for repairs. when Bell Ketron was open, I never had a problem with repairs, they almost had 99% of all the parts on present keyboards and even on the older ones and if they needed a part it came quickly from Italy. I not sure about Ted at CMC but I'm sure that they will do a good job as did Lou from Bell Ketron.

Style library, well just have to wait and see. They have a big style library for the MS series and the X series. Hopefully they will do it again for the audya.



[This message has been edited by mc (edited 12-05-2008).]