I've just got back from a T5 demo given by Richard Bower of Yamaha UK.

As a 3k owner I can'y really tell you how good the T5 is compared to the T4, but I can tell you that all the voices mentioned by Joost were demo''d and sounded excellent. I was very impressed with the amplifier modelling on the guitars, and by the organ world section. The concert pipe organ sounded fabulous.

A large number of the styles used had familiar names but have clearly been edited to make full use of the newer voices in the T5. I appreciate that this was to be expected but it has been done to a consistently high standard to my ears.

The concert piano was given some serious solo playing and sounded as good as any digital piano I've heard. It was described as "a significant improvement over the T4".

The entire demo was played through the trs-ms05 speaker system alone, and it was plenty loud enough for the room with 40 ish people even with the concert organ being given plenty of stick.

As an experiment I played back om of my favourite PSR3000 sequences and that came over pretty well. Richard suggested that it would benefit from using one of the newer drum voices and indeed it sounded even better after this edit.

Richard was demonstrating the 76 key version and commented that the extra notes can really help when using the right3 split to give an easily accessible different voicing with sufficient range to be useful without compromising the amount of keyboard used for the mainstrean performance. As a pianist I like the 76 notes anyhow.

If I was getting a T5 I'd be getting the 76 key version, and I'd get the new speakers system as well!