Thanks so much Tom:
I enjoyed your comparison and tasteful review. I'd love to get my hands on the CTK 7000 for a day or two. "Kicking tires" on keyboards is a "rite of passage" and absolutely essential to those of us with restrictive budgets. (My wife, the gatekeeper, continues to reinforce this idea!)
Thanks for your input.
Dave Rice
Thank you for the kind words, Dave. Often reviews are written by someone with an ax to grind, or with unrealistic expectations, or other things that render the review either useless or infuriating. I've read some 7500 threads on harmony central and they tend to get a bit nasty. I do try to just state what my experience has been with the instrument rather than do
too much commentary.
One other thing that has proved very, very useful on this board - the 1/4" instrument input. When you don't want to power up your entire PA system, this is a great feature. I've run both my Rhodes and Korg DW-8000 through the WK-7500's speakers this way, and it's very handy.
One thing I'm trying to do, though, with this input - use it as an effects loop. For example, I want to run the output of the WK-7500 into a Phase 90, then run the output of the Phase 90 into the instrument input, and
only hear the instrument input. So far I haven't been able to do this - you always end up hearing both the original sound and the external sound. I'm hoping it can be done, because that would be a really cool thing to be able to do.