The Stage has, imo, a really nice keybed. It also has the SRX-12 Pure Rhodes in its soundset, which with a few tweaks sounds really good. The VR-09 has the crap keys from the Juno-D/G series and I think the Rhodes is 'supernatural', and former 'supernatural' Rhodes have never done it for me. YMMV. If the VR-09 had 73 C-C Juno Stage keys I'd have pre-ordered one already, as it is I'll wait to play it before I decide. On paper it looks great, but the top drawbars of the VK organs never sounded terribly good to me and the keys of the Juno-G were some of the worst I've ever come across.