No, not confused, leaning toward the 480, or 570, 590? don't know a 
lot about the Kenwood 2000 much but will attempt to read a good bit 
about it, how it compares with the others, price wise, etc. Some are 
meant to go mobile a good bit easier than others, etc.
I come from the era of hf in one package, VHF and UHF in other 
packages, but mainly this will be an HF rig though if it did 2 meters 
also I wouldn't kick much.
I hear that the 2000 has better transmit audio than the 480, but 
again, I presume that would be more the interface with microphone and 
band pass, etc.
I have no experience with any kind of digital audio processing yet, 
so that will be a new experience for me.
Thanks!
by the way I haven't heard of Icom with a speech synthesizer, or if 
there is software to control those rigs with the computer as in the 
Kenwood 480S/at, etc.



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