Some facts:

- If you want to survive, you have to make money. (Shareholders/owners demands it.)
- To make money, you have to sell quite a few of your product, whatever product it is.
- To make people buy, you don't start by set the price level twice as high as your competitors.
- To make more people buy, you have to deliver a quality product that don't give bad reputation whatever cause it.
- To keep your customers stay at your product, you have to listen and be solution & service minded.
- The list goes on............


If Ketron (or whoever cause it) did not place the pricelevel higher than the goldrate in this country, I would be one
of the first to run and buy the Audya when it finally arrived.
Why? Because I learned to know the SD1 who not only sounds good, but is heavenly to play. Lovely keys and keybed, and
I really like the "live and human" sound and styles. But the (old) OS is a nightmare for those of us who's not born
into Ketron land.

TAlso I did believe that the Audya would be more finished when it came out, after all it was delayed for quite a long
time after they first started the hype.
I would like to think the OS is far more userfriendly and have more options regarding style editing etc. than we have
seen before, and the small leaks about OS4 tells this will be even better.
No, I don't think Audya is a bad keyboard, I would love to have one, but I hate to feel like robbed after a deal ..

The audio idea is great, but I think it has to be yet another model (Audya II ??) before we see hard and sofware that
manage to make some intentions or wishes come true.

Cheers
GJ