Originally posted by ianmcnll:
Arrangers do all the work, and therefore people tend to trade up to get the latest and greatest unit to do the all the work even better than the last one.
Not unless you LET them do all the work...

And, as little as most model upgrades offer, why anyone would bother beats me. 'Even better' ought to be 'slightly better', IMO. And why anyone trades around a $4.5k arranger for a few new styles and a couple of new sounds (and probably loses $1000 in the process) is sheer insanity.

But let's take this forum, for example. How many members we got, posting with any regularity (even once a month)? Just a few. How many arrangers sold? Thousands, tens of thousands, yearly (globally). We are the tip of the spear, the fanatical few. I don't think there is nearly as much upgrade fever as this forum would lead one to believe. For every customer you see every new product release, how many more do you NEVER see again?
Sanity is far more common than we would like to admit, I believe...