After four hours straight I’m bushed. I don’t know if I can shed much light.

Sound Genos through Bose S1 excellent....outstanding.

First impression pluses.

Voices are dead on. SA adds so much. Many are gorgeous. Genos uses one touch much like Korg does keyboard sets. Each style has 4 one touch settings. Each setting has three voices so you have 12 voice options for the style.

Styles are alive and rich sounding comes to mind. Genos is every bit as good as my 4X...maybe better?

Genos is well laid out...love the large touch screen...easy to navigate.

It’s light and easy to handle. Love all the multipad options...especially the vocal backups...really missed those from my Tyros. A specific multipad option comes up for each style.

Now the things that made me go hmmmm... 😖

The Genos has the same damn keys and key-bed as my S970! Unreal! On a $5K keyboard? This might be the deal breaker for me...my 4X keybed feels to me like a pro keyboard...the S970, not so much. BUMMER!

Voice, style and other sound balance...

For live play, all controlled, it appears, by sliders. The sliders work well..however the sliders are off to the side and I struggled to figure out when playing which slider controlled which volume etc. Not a deal breaker but I can see a person would have to practice with them so as not to get confused in live play.

Finally, I’m still struggling with paying that much $$$ for this keyboard...especially when the keybed is, I think, the same quality as an entry level PSR series. If the Genos had keys/keybed as good as my 4X, I think the deal would be done.

Oh well, I’ve got the board for a few days, we’ll see.

It’s true that Genos is a wonderful sounding keyboard.