Exactly Ketron is on the right track in so many ways for our needs....We look forward to meeting up with AJ again very soon for a Audya demo.........or look at it this way 3k prices will drop a bit when people start buying a S900

Not that I'm in the market to replace my T2, but the 3k replacement is very disappointing. Not sure of the conversion rate of euros to dollars but I'm guessing that would put the S900 with a list price of about $2500. Hmmm, PA 800 looks like a better choice in that general price range.

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Stephen,

The German prices are probably mostly of interest to the European members here at Synthzone. My experience with musical instrument prices is that there is very little correlation between US and European prices - they are totally different markets. However I think it is safe to expect the PSR-S900 to be at the same price level as the PSR-3000 - maybe a little more expensive in the first couple of months until the last PSR-3000 has been sold.

Kind regards,
Tommy


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Where are you reading the specs? The link I see posted here is in another language. And the JPG links don't help at all in my case. Are the specs posted as an image or graphic text rather than normal text that my screenreader can recognize?

The specs are a jpg of the real specs. Something any browser should display....

does any one know if the style list has been released yet for the S900??? surely it must have new styles that are not on the T2...

What exactly is new on the PSR S900 over the PSR3000?

5 more Mega voices
23 more super articulation voices
8 more Sweet Voices
8 more Cool Voices
1 more Live Voice
2 more drum voices

Extra polyphany.

No aux out like the PSR3000
No smart media slot like the PSR3000

It is extremely measley improvement given that Yamaha had three years to develop this keyboard. There are going to be a lot of styles - 95% of which are probably already on the Tyros II. So we'll get maybe 15 new styles - those of us who already have the Tyros II styles.

Beakybird

thanks for this info Beakybird.
The problem with JPG specs is that it is a picture of text, not real text, so my voice synthesizer doesn't know it is text. It sees it as a picture only.

So let's say the s900 sells for the same price as a 3000 is now, what would be a better alternative for the money. Unless of course the 3000 becomes greatly reduced in price. I agree if I owned a 3000 I don't think there is enough there to make me upgrade but what else is available in that price range. I don't have a keyboard now because I've been waiting for the new replacement.

Anyone ever stop to think that Yammie and the other's holding back on the technology is for a reason?

Keyboard's aren't built to last anymore. They're built as "disposable items". Yammie and other makers hold back on the technology because if they didn't who'd buy the upgrades? They all tease you with little improvements here and there, but hold just a bit for the future sales of the upgrade.

I agree 3 years in the making, the S900 could have "A LOT MORE" for a reasonable price, but if they did that who'd buy the S910, S920, and so on????

The HD would be a nice feature in the S900, but keep in mind they've added some SA voices to the new model. These SA voices alone were a HUGE marketing campaign for Yamaha with the Tyros II. You don't need a marketing degree to see adding all those features bringing the S900 closer to the Tyros II could hurt sales of Yammie flagship model.

It's like Roland shooting themselves in the foot by releasing the Juno-G while the Fantom Xa is still being sold. Those two boards are pretty darn close on the feature list.

Squeak