Pricing in US for Juno-Stage $1,395

[JunoJohn]

Musician's Friend has the Juno-Stage listed at $1,395.00, available in 2-4 weeks.

Guitar Center has $1,395.00, available in 2-4 weeks.

Sweetwater has $1,395.97.

Methinks I've spotted a trend, forsooth!

BTW, the suggested "retail price" is $1,599.00.

[dansgold]

O M G

That is an awesom price point. It completely kills things like Yamaha's MM8 (priced at $1299 and having only 32 notes of polyphony)

I think I need this thing.

[JunoJohn]

G A S

Gear Acquisition Syndrome strikes… again!

[2TIM316]

That's a great price. I'm concerned that they had to cut corners somewhere. Especially considering the weak U.S. dollar and this being a non-U.S. product (isn't everything these days?) Historically the "new" Juno's (i.e. S and G) have had crappy feeling keyboards (to me). I realize they've elongated the keys, but at 21 pounds, I can't imagine how substantial the keyboard could be. I hope for the best however. Possibly improvements in mass production, etc... will yield an economical yet well built and well playing instrument. On paper it looks outstanding.

Another really promising thing about this post is that if the big online retailers are listing it, it must be somewhat close to being released. Cool!

[Parsifal]

They did. Remember, no aftertouch (Juno G also has no aftertouch but the Fantom has), no sequencer, no sampler / digital recorder. They however put vocoder and MP3 player on it along with 76 normal keys instead.

I wish they'd create a 61-key keyboard with accompaniment, MP3 player AND vocoder. It puzzles me why the Juno Stage has vocoder while the GW8 doesn't. An accompaniment board points out to the "one man's band" very concept, while the Stage will be more attractive to bands (rock, metal, you name it) - where the vocoder will be next to useless...Strip the vocoder off the Stage and give it aftertouch...

[JunoJohn]

To correct my first post:

Musician's Friend and Guitar Center have changed the availability date to October 30, 2008 on their websites.

[DaveC]

if you are a careful shopper ... Sam Ash runs their 20% Off and 18 months 0% only twice thru out the year ...

i got my Juno Stage for $1,116 last Friday ...

i'm not sure it'll stay stuck at the 1,395 for a real long time ..!