WHOA!
Are you talking $3 - 4,000 in U.S. dollars? That would probably cost around $50,000 Canadian! LOL. j/k
But seriously, I checked out the prices here (Montreal) for the Akai S6000 sampler, and they were selling it at this store for like $2700!!! In the U.S. it's like $1200 or something like that. Same thing with the MPC2000xl, in the U.S. it's $1200 brand new, here in Canada we're talking $2500. That's just ridiculous.
I can't believe the Canadian dollar is so messed up! You know, there was a time when the Canadian dollar was actually worth MORE than the American one. Of course that didn't last long, but it really sucks because we're not a third-world country, we're right upstairs from the U.S., you'd figure the dollar would be equal.