A few years ago, I was in Seattle and took a trip north from there. My first stop was Petosa Accordions to see the Bugari EVO. I can tell you that the case is wood, the treble keyboard is a standard wooden accordion keyboard with key rods and pallets, so air flow is more natural than what you'd expect from a digital accordion. The bass section was standard Roland, somewhat clicky, but highly configurable. If I were to choose the CBA version, I'd have a choice of six layouts, just like a Roland FR-8x. But unlike the Roland FR-8x, it cannot accept sound expansion sets, or communicate with the FR-8x Editor software. The wooden case is probably somewhat responsible for a less electronic sound than the FR-8x, but one dealer (Alex Chudolij of Music Magic Accordions USA) told me that the sound difference is also caused by the size and shape of the speaker enclosure, which in this case, is the space behind the grille. Battery placement in the instrument is a double-edged sword; on the one hand, it makes for better balance than the battery placement in the FR-8x, on the other hand, access to the battery (and the USB port, for that matter, is behind the back pad in the EVO. And yes, in my judgement, it's overpriced, particularly for the Luxury and DeLuxe trim levels.
As I understand it, electronic components in Italy are in short supply due to Covid. Although Petosa received a shipment of EVOs recently, many of them went to fill existing orders. Petosa should be getting more EVOs in the fall, as well as the first shipment of the all-Italian, all digital, wooden-cased, 37/96 Proxima Mia 37. If you want to concentrate on configurability, this will be a most interesting instrument.
