Hi Philip,
quite often the case. Salespeople who don't know how to operate them.
When I went to buy my Korg PA3X, they had a single speaker attached which looked more like a guitar amp. The keyboard is STEREO for goodness sake.
Except for the fact that I already owned a Korg PA800 and knew how good Korgs are, I would have just walked out. Instead I just spent 5 minutes as I already knew most of it's functions, told them to pack it up, took it home & haven't regretted it for a minute.

Do yourself a favour , download the manuals, (there's 2, one for the normal operation, one for the style editor & sampling/sound editing. It's the closest thing out there to a workstation as well as being an arranger.

http://www.korgpa.com/en/products/arrangers/pa3x/pa3x-informations.html


You'll have an even bigger headache maybe? having to decide between 3. haahaa

Whatever you decide, don't rush it, it's a big investment.

[quote=philip2000]thank you for your advice on this.
I did try the korg pa3x and felt the yamaha was better sounding on the backgrounds (korg sounded kind of "thin"---but that could also be due the fact no one knew how to operate that keyboard.