Hi all,

Like me, dislike me, boo me if you want, but this is my honest findings to answer my own curiosity:


I sat down with the PSR950 in all honesty last night, to determine if the sound quality really comes short to that of the Audya. I used headphones only (very good quality & the same headphones I use for the Audya) and went through a few hundred of the absolute best Yamaha styles I've collected over the years.

I played around with the EQ settings & everything else I could find to tweak the sound. Well, after nearly three hours of this, I've reached my own personal verdict: (note, I say my "own")

I really, but really like many, many of the Yamaha styles. How I long for those on the Audya... However, try as I might, the quality of what I hear fall really short from what I hear from the Audya.

And I realize something else - we had a PSR3000 before we had the Audya. We then considered it to be fantastic. Why now, with the much later & better S950 are we no longer satisfied by the sound? I realize it is only because we've been spoilt by the Audya for the last year or two. No use bringing this over to someone who've never owned an Audya. We all are used & accustomed to what we've heard over the years & I do not expect anyone to understand what I say. We gigged happily with the 3K before, so I am not biased in any way at all. I have only very good things to say about Yamaha.

I can really not vouch or speak for the Tyros range, but, even though the styles on the PSR series are fantastic, it lacks seriously in the total produced sound compared to the Audya. If it was only EQ settings, then I should have been able to make it sound like the Audya.

I'll definitely keep the S950 - no need to get rid of it & I'm still very satisfied with it. But for now, we'll use only the Audya for our live performances.

Please note: This is not a "mine is better than yours" conclusion, I own both & have no plans to get rid of anything - However, I just had to make the above out for myself as I was really & totally baffled by all of this. Plus we really, but really wanted to use some of those really fantastic Yamaha styles for some of what we perform.


Henni