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> Best $240. I ever spent. Does the "P5 sound" 
> better than my Ion, and they compliment each other 

I agree.  I'll listen to Yaz/Yazoo's "Upstairs at Erics" and than 
think to myself, "Man...I've just gotta get an SCI Pro-1 but then I 
talk myself out of it since I have AN200 that, by almost all accounts, 
can get pretty close...and it has patch memory.  I wouldn't really 
want a performance synth where you couldn't store patches - I'm just 
not old-skool enough!  Even Dave Smith himself said that good VAs can 
get "90%" of the analog sound and he went on to say that in his 
opinion that's good enough when you factor in the advantages and extra 
features of VA vs. aging analogs.

I certainly like (or love??) my Ion but it's more of an amorphous "any 
analog" whereas the ANs are focused on sounding like a P5.