I used to be a devoted KN/Technics myself. Heck, my dad used to be a sole dealership overseas for many years before.

A few things that steer me away from Techics:

1. After playing it for over 15 years. Yes, the sounds improved significantly, but I was ready for a change (and it was NOT easy).

2. PRICE

3. Attitude from salesperson at the dealership. I was trying out one of the boards before. In the middle of my playing, he asked me "Are you going to buy this keyboard?" I'm like "why" he answered "cause these people may be interested in buying". Mind you, I play well..even the people behind me were listening to my playing.

4. KN6000 was my last (technics)keyboard- It was broken for a while. When I tried the harmonizer on that thing, I thought the harmnonizer broke since it sounded so distorted and bad.

I don't know why a company as big as Technics can overlook something like this (harmonizer). I don't know how many people turned away (meaning...they lose money off course) from buying this because of a bad harmonizer.

But my dad also told me (long time ago)...that when he was a Yamaha dealer- the people in Japan was much more supportive towards the dealers, etc..and much more intuned to what people want. Not so for Technics. All they wanted was push sales, but not supportive to their dealers.

Okay...enough of my ranting...just bored