I am assuming that the above comparison is valid and I would like to comment about them:

"The PSR 9000 Pro has about 40 more voices."

- The question is what quality and not how many! If those 40 new voices are truely superb and they are the best of the best, that is it. PSR9K is a different beast. but if the best sounds of PSR9Kpro are in PSR2k, even if PSR9kpro has 1000 more voices, it really does not matter. What is the deal? The best sounds of PSR9K are already in PSR740 (I heard them with my own ears) and therefore, they will be already in PSR2k unless Yamaha does something wrong.

"The PSR 9000 Pro has sampling capability"

-That is nice if you are going to do sampling. I do, so for me I will be needing it. How about yourself? Do you really need it?

"The PSR 9000 Pro has more keys and semi-weighted keys and aftertouch. You're going to get a much better piano feel."

- If you are buying PSR9Kpro for the piano-sake, do not bother. May I recommend, P80 or XV88 or Kurzweil's new controller? I tested the piano and it is lacking. The more keys are good but the less keys means portable and lighter ... I learned this the very hard way.

"The PSR 9000 Pro has a hard drive (Or just HD capability?) where you can store many many styles, samples, and registrations. The PSR 2000 has flash rom: just 1 mb."

- Harddrive is very nice and worth it. The flash rom is nice only if the user is equipped with flash burning utility onboard of the keyboard to add his own styles. Nevertheless, if the flash can only be updated by the manufacturer or by updating the OS, then it is useless for styles or sounds. 1meg is good for some styles and some sounds but does not count for professional storage.

"The PSR 9000 Pro takes expansion cards"

- I hate expansion cards. how about you make everything already installed and built in for the same price. That is a point against PSR9kpro.

"The PSR 9000 Pro has SCSI connection to the computer."

- big time big deal! people and companies are moving away from SCSI. How about built in CD-writer or 2GIG jazz drive.

"The PSR 9000 Pro has video out"

- nice, but I never used that feature although my keyboard is equipped with one.

"The PSR 9000 Pro has double the polyphany"

- PSR2k has at least 64 note polyphoney which is more than adequate for any professional keyboard.

"On the plus side for the PSR 2000, as compared to the PSR 740, it will have direct disk play from floppy. This is from a Yamaha rep, but I am waiting to get this confirmed. If this is not true, musicians will have to delete from their measley 1 mb of style rom (if it's full) during a performance in order to load a new style."

-- direct disk play is not good enough. The keyboard really needs memory-backed RAM or (harddrive and RAM). that is a big plus for PSR9kpro over all the PSR lines.




So in conclusion, Yamaha took away from PSR2k the one good feature that will make it blow away PSR9kpro which is: the harddrive and ram! So that is the question here, do you really need that harddrive?

P.S., also...did they add "copy", "cut" and "paste" to the sequencer? If not, do not count on the sequencer of PSR2k.




[This message has been edited by sk880user (edited 08-26-2001).]