As I said it before,this has been discussed many times over and over,we are paying mostly for R&D and less on the hardware,but,nothing innovative, that I can see, to really say, WOW! everything is a rehash of the previous model with a few extra bells and whistles which was really a software upgrade of the previous model and the new is basically almost the same casing. Although the newest models are very good compared to many years back they are too expensive for the masses to own.Because the technology is so good,we should see 500 notes polyphony a 16 gigs of Ram of sampling and something to this extent but we are brainwashed to think new is better no matter what comes out, even if just slightly better,you gotta have it.