IF he gets a cahnce he needs to at least listen to both.,
The R5000 is a much better, as in more sensitive, and qiuter noise
floor, but the audio is worse then merely bad. The Kenwood engineers
ahd to stay up[ many long nights to get audio that bad. It couldn'thave
been a accident. the audio actually gives me a headach after several
hours of listening.

And while the R2000 on displays down to 100Hz, it tunes in 50Hz steps.
More then good enough for any SSB reception. And if you want to
go whole hod, there is a mod posted by FC on teh R2000 mods
page that allows the BFO to be shifted over a several 100Hz range.
It makes ECSSB reception of weak AM signals fun.

The R5000 also has a well known failure mode when the potting
compound for the ?PLL? dries out and fails. While not all that hard
to repair, it isn't something I would wish on a newbe.

Terry