Ketron News 2010...
Making their World premier at Musikmesse 2010, Ketron presents FOUR exciting releases: The new 61 key Professional Arranger Keyboard: Audya 5, a new Arranger and Multiplayer Module: Audya 4, and a new professional class piano module: the Klavi Pro.
I hate to break it to Ketron but there are only THREE product releases instead of the stated FOUR.
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Unless there's an invisible product somewhere cloaked in secrecy and written with invisible ink that is. lol
Okay, everyone makes mistakes I reckon and apparently Ketron made a counting error. One, two, three, uh.. four??? Sorry but I only count three Ketron.
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Anyway, beyond the counting error the Audya 4 looks very interesting but it also looks
very expensive in my opinion. I'm guessing it's gonna cost in the neighborhood of $3,000.00 before tax. If that's the case I'll pass and wait for a keyboard version high-end arranger from Yammie, Korg, and/or Roland. If the price is around $2,000.00 I would be inclined to give it more consideration. Funny though that Ketron doesn't have a "complete" spec list nor do they have an MSRP for it yet. Maybe they're waiting a while to take some of the edge off the "sticker shock" that will ultimately come once they do announce it. I mean, you don't get everybody interested and excited and lay a $4,000.00 plus price tag in front of them at the same time right?
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In their excitement they might just keel over from a heart attack and croak and Ketron could potentially lose several Audya 4 customers in the process who would otherwise be alive today if not for Ketron's immediately announced zinger of a price on the Audya 4. If they had immediately announced the price that is.
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Give 'em a few days or weeks and once the initial excitement dies down then they can apply the zinger of a price tag to the equation, and hopefully those with a predisposed heart condition will have resuscitation paddles nearby as well as a loved one experienced in heart attack resuscitation techniques.
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CLEAR!
All the best,
Mike