Quality Keyboard Controller?

The main reason I am posting here is that I know a lot of you are Keyboard/Piano players...thanx...

less than $800?

try to find a used Yamaha P80 .. a new one should cost around $750-$800 .

i know ur looking for just a controller ( and this one is a compact but full "digital piano" ) but
from what i've seen ( and played on ) the Fatar isn't as good as the Yamaha/Roland digital pianos .

some old Kurzweil's too ,maybe a PC-88 . these digital pianos have a good feel but u know , its never like the real thing of course ..
AND its a matter of taste too ..
most guys like the Yamaha P80 or S80 / S90 keyboards ...but some say they are a bit too mushy .

this FAQ - http://www.allaboutpianos.com/digitalfaq.html#six - says "reports of people chipping the plastic on the key, or losing a spring which helps the feel of a weighted action and have been playing gingerly ever since, but this seems to be in the minority " .. i think this is no minority , depends on what u play u might want a quality built keyboard.. the Fatar is hard/clicky sometimes..
Roland - have different keyboard models but most tend to break ( INSIDE the instrument... where some cheap plastics hold the weights... ) after a while .

Yamaha - so far so good , i'm happy with my S90 .

"The general consensus is that digital pianos can take as much pounding as a piano can." - not really .. you hear the keyboard itself more .. and if you are not using enough volume you might feel ur almost breaking some keys while u "pound" on them ;) needs a good surface/ keyboard Stand .

I tried a bunch of controllers, and bought the Fatar SL-880 Pro.
It not only had the nicest action, it's also pretty much the least
expensive weighted 88-key controller you can buy, at least in Europe.

Caveats: The user interface is pretty awkward - I wouldn't want
to have to change the keyboard zone splits in a hurry on stage,
for example. It's only got basic controllers beyond the keys:
pitch bend, mod wheel, volume and sustain pedals, and
theres enough structural plastic where you'd want a really good
road case if you were going to gig with it. But I've been extremely
happy with mine. With a good velocity sensitive patch on a physical
modeling soft synth, and latencies set low enough (below 5ms),
I can really "feel" the virtual instrument through the keyboard.
Which, for me, is what it's all about.

That having been said, I really don't rememeber whether
the M-Audio Keystation was among the other controllers I tried.
It could be fabulous too. I've heard in a couple of places that
Fatar OEM's their keyboard actions to Kurtzweil and others.
Who knows, maybe the Keystation has a Fatar action!

I still have my old Yamaha KX88.

The intro to my dog-eared manual reads, in part: "It is the first completely programmable and assignable midi keyboard."

I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. That's because it is too heavy to move.

Thanks!