Ok - back to the topic at hand.

Have any of our PG members forums tried one of these out and can give a firsthand review ?

I don't personally mind an initial tuning of my guitar, but hate when it goes slightly out frequently (as mine often do - maybe I just have crappy guitars : ( though with new strings, I believe this happens to everyone until they're stretched out a little.

And of course the idea of changing tunings mid-song is kind of cool, though I think it's probably better to just have a separate guitar for altered tunings for the sake of the neck and the strings.

BTW - how long before consumer reports does a "we tried out the tronical tuner and in our test, tuned and detuned a guitar 10,250 times...our resluts....Actually, not soon, because I'm willing to bet there are not too many competitors thinking of doing the same (scratch that - maybe every current large guitar company will soon have there own to compete with each other on that feature). America - country of competition.

Also - to keep the strings sounding springy, I try to tune up to pitch rather than go sharp in an effort to stretch them out and have the windings get tighter quicker (I'd be surprised if this hasn't been discussed here at some point).

I'm usually a "late" adopter of technology, but an 'early' "on the lookout for what's new discoverer". Of course - many of you are ahead of me on the early discovery phase, which is -- one of the reasons I come here so often !!! But I won't jump into a new technology until it has been widely used, reviewed, and some of the early kinks are worked out (and any engineer knows, there are always lots of kinks to be worked out
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I found a few demo links and reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0D8k5TwtcI

http://www.tronical.com/first-review-and-video-gibsons-min-etune-self-tuning-system/

http://www.gizmag.com/minetune-tronicaltune-robot-tuners/27155/

http://en.audiofanzine.com/guitar-tuner/tronical/PowerTune/user_reviews/r.101893.html

On the site I see the price as 299 - not so sure I'm ready for the headaches of installing and tinkering with a new product given the payback, unless it's really 'idiot proof'. I'm sure it's prone to breaking, given the complexity of such a device.