grandpa doug,i agree with a lot of what you say,BUT following sheep,on this great site there are pro,s who have valuable input regardless of the keyboards offered,its ok to say to people to go into the shops and try out for yourself all the keyboards and pick what you like best (i,m not saying that you said this) iv,e had my psr2000 for just over a year now and i still don,t understand everything about it,when you try other keyboards with different layouts to fathom,its not easy for most of us ,thats why we rely on the pro,s on this site even though it is sometimes bias,i for one would rather trust my friends here than a salesman who MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW A LOT ABOUT THEIR PRODUCT is only interested in my money,i don,t include george kaye or don or others dealers on this site,because there is a lot of sincerity in what they say,for this reason i suggested some time ago that maybe we could have a breakdown of all the keyboards on each part of say 1 to10 on sounds, operating ,styles etc,etc etc,as said before there is no perfect keyboard but the better we can get for our money the more happier we are,mike