Originally Posted By Kabinopus
I can see why the concept of E-A7 can be so appealing. I like that it is borh compact and professionally orientated - usually you can't have it both. Meanwhile, judging by demos I can't say that it sounds in any way better than PSR-S670. The latter costs in Russia more than two times cheaper. My impression is that since the time of PSR-3000 Yamaha has updated almost each sound and style, while Roland is still using the same stuff they had decades ago. I can be wrong. Still, in Russia PSR-S670 is a big hit, according to some sales reports, and I don't see E-A7 in these reports at all.


„The same stuff they had decades ago“ sounds a bit exaggerated to me, although I think you are right that the S670 has more updated sounds (doesn‘t it also benefit from this new Yamaha chip introduced with the Montage?). To my experience, many of the E-A7 tones are nearly identical to those of the BK-9 and BK-7m, and the BK-7m has been described as more or less a module version of the E-80. So I think, for the most part, the bulk of the sounds stem from around 2004-2008, the era of Fantom X, G70 and E-80. Bad enough, but still not decades ago.