Please don't take this the wrong way, Ian, I'm just trying to point out something you may not even have noticed yourself...

But... After several years of quite vehemently 'defending' the action on the PSR, and saying you prefer it even better than the Tyros FSX while you were playing the PSR, now you have a Tyros with an FSX action, and all of a sudden, wow! That FSX action now is superior to what you have played in the past (i.e., the PSR!).

All I'm trying to do is point out the natural tendency to praise what we are already playing, rather than perhaps keep an open and frank opinion of ALL arrangers, including what we already are currently playing. I have no problem accepting that many arranger features in other arrangers are better than my G70. I also think that the things that are important TO ME make the G70 by far the best arranger FOR ME, but I'm not going to sit there and put down other things on other arrangers that are demonstrably better than the G70.

You put down the T2/3 action while you had the PSR. Now you have the T4 and suddenly, it got SO much better?!

Maybe ALL of us can learn a bit from this, and step back from the reflexive 'defending' of each and every feature on our treasured keyboard, and start to discuss them openly and frankly. I see this as the way to improve the breed, and to get the manufacturers to realize when they are slipping a bit. Having a large percentage of the owners 'defend' poor features simply because they don't want to admit ANY flaw if they can help it sort of skews the manufacturers' (and ours, here) feedback.

Stay brutally frank (no, not YOU, Frank!), and there's fewer things like this about face going on...

Please don't take this as an insult. It honestly isn't intended as such. I really enjoy this place, but sometimes it gets a bit contentious, as we sometimes defend what we play a little TOO vigorously.

I am happy for you and your acquisition of the TOTL Yamaha, and really DO look forward to hearing you do your magic on it, soon. Your PSR demos were some of the best that have been posted here, and I can only imagine how much further you can take this new one. I can't wait!