Brent Faulkner's keyboard/recording studio equipment website evaluation page

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Musician's Friend an abundance of keyboards and other studio equipment for purchase (content), easy to navigate, pretty quick load-speed, great graphics.  Grade: A-;  9/10
Korg an abundance of keyboards and recording equipment;  content is excellent and includes artist testimonials, product specifics, demos, and etc.  The site is incredibly easy to navigate with exceptional load-speed, and exceptional, top-notch graphics; great webpage design by all means. Grade: A+; 10/10
Hammond Organ Company Lists organ and leslie speakers available, offering PDF brochures - no vivid HTML descriptions of each organ.  Overall easy to navigate with quick load-speed.  Graphics are subtle, nothing flashy, but OK.  Grade: B;  8.5/10
Yamaha A number of keyboards available with features, specifications, and accessories of each linked to seperate pages;  content could be a bit more detailed or offer a PDF user manual;  Overall pretty easy to navigate, but you have to search for what you're looking for before you find it; graphics are OK, though not stellar.   Grade:  B;  8.5/10
Propellerhead Software Overall good content related to recording-studio software (Reason) providing demos, informative videos etc. Easy to navigate with great load-speed, and graphics are good, if not great.  Grade:  A, 9.5/10
Cakewalk Good content about studio software applications such as SONAR 7 among others, easy to navigate with links leading to different, related pages, good load-speed, overall good graphics.  Grade: A, 9.5/10
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Good content about applications (Cubase particularly) including specifics and demos,  links make the site quite easy to navigate,  load-speed is great, and graphics are subtle, but solid. Grade: A, 9/10
M-AUDIO Great content about midi controllers, digital keyboards, and other software/hardware; links to different pages make navigability a breeze;  load-speed is top-notch while graphics are also strong.  Grade:  A+, 10/10
Audio-Technica Great, detailed content about mics and headphones.  Navigability is OK, but not as sound as other sites - there's a lot of information to take in and the font is a bit small.  Load speed is fine, but graphics are average.
Grade:  B-,  8/10
Fostex Good content about multi-track and post-production recording equipment;  nice utilization of links make navigability good.  Load-speed is solid while graphics are solid, yet average.  Grade: A-, 9/10
Tascam Exceptional, detailed content about multi-track recording equipment and mixers including linked specifications, etc.  Exceptional use of links makes this one of the easiest sites on this list to navigate.  Load-speed is great and graphics are exceptional.  Grade: A+, 10/10
Behringer Good content about mixers with specific information in the form of PDFs;  overall easy to navigate, though lists of products is a bit hard to read due to small font, though links are fine.  Load-speed is great, though graphics are solid, yet unexceptional overall.  Grade: B-, 8/10
Roland Detailed specifics about the content (synthesizers) utilizing user friendly links.  Overall easy to navigate with load speed being solid, if a bit sluggish compared to the top-notch sites.  Graphics are solid, yet unexceptional. Grade: A-/B+, 9/10
Alesis Good content about drum machines and mixers - most details are in the form of a manual for products in PDF format.  Easy to navigate, thought the scrolling is the slightest bit annoying.  Load speed is fine, thougn not as exceptional as the very best.  Graphics are average.  Grade: B, 8.5/5
Williams Digital Pianos Content is good, though not particularly detailed referring to keyboards/pianos;  links are provided to PDF manuals for productions.  Navigability is easy here, while graphics are average, though tastefully done.  Grade: B-, 8/10
Kurzweil Music Systems Content about different keyboards/synthesizers is good with ample details;  links make the site very navigable and user friendly.  Load-speed is exceptional and graphics are above average. Grade: A,  9.5/10
BOSS U.S. Content is very detailed concerning studio equipment such as drum programmers, digital recorders, with demos and testimonials by professionals;  very navigable utilizing a plethora of links.   Load speed is superb and graphics are exception.  Grade: A+,  10/10
MOOG MUSIC Content concerning products is detailed and easily navigable; excellent load speed and solid graphics.  Grade: A-, 9/10
Rhodes Music Corporation Content is solid if a bit vague concerning details regarding keyboards.  The site is easy to navigate with excellent load speed and solid graphics. Grade:  B,  8.5/10.
Gibson Baldwin Piano Company Content is solid concering acoustic and digital pianos with PDF owner's manuals available for digital models;  navigability is easy using links.  The load speed is solid, if not the slightest bit slow.  Graphics are average.  Grade: B-,  8/10