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I paid the equivalent to Us$ 200 on mine, mint condition but no pg-200. For that kind of money, it's a terrific synth. Its only real drawback, in my opinion, is the poor midi implementation. I would have liked it to send midi messages from the controllers, so that I could use it to play my soft synths and tweak them in real-time, as I suppose you can do with the Juno 106 and its knobs and sliders. No velocity, but why would you need it in a synthesizer? It's not a bloody piano, so it was obviously not built to feel and respond like one. You'll use this machine to creat unusual, out-of-this-earth sounds. I played it through a guitar fx pedal, with some distortion and delay on. I cranked up the resonance in the jx-3p and it produced a great acid sound which only the most anal conoisseurs could tell it's not a 303.
This is my first analog synth, so I can't tell how it fares against other pieces of gear. What I can say is that it sounds great, at least compared with the software synths I've played (VAZ, Reaktor, Reality), and it's easy to use even without the pg-200 if you've already got some experience programming synths. Plus, you won't have to sell your ass to buy one of these. In this price range it can't be beat, but if you're willing to spend a few bucks more, go for a Juno 106 if you can find one.
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