George may I purchase one of those refurb wk3000 from you on-line or should I call you?
Jim

Jim, in case George doesn't check in for a while (he does get busy running his store), I'm pretty sure you have to call.
Good luck with the Casio. Don't forget to make him throw in the masking tape to cover the name.
DonM

Don,
Thank you.
In regards to the masking tape, point well taken. But would you believe that at one time
(being a guitarist first and keyboardist second) I actually used only an old cz101 on stage. With it's mini keys etc.
I only used it for a few fills now and then at the time, but still.....lol....

I mainly want the wk for it's 76 nice feeling keys and better arranger functions than I currently have on a qy100. It will be a while before I go out as a omb, if I ever do, and will probably move on from the wk before that time.
The wk will make a nice gift at that time to one of many people I can think of.
Jim

Jim, you can't see the tongue in my cheek, but I would play a Matel keyboard if I liked it and it did the job!
On my Wednesday night supper club job (gotta go pretty quick), I take my keyboard, stand, mic, laptop and the Yamaha YMS 50 speakers. I plug the keyboard and LT directly into the speakers. I'm set up in 5 minutes and the speakers are so small, they are barely visible to the audience.
Other musicians come in and walk up to the stage wondering where all the sound is coming from. Some of them carry a whole truckload of gear in to do the same job, and even though there may be 2 or 3 of them, they get the same pay.
Point is - the sound is what's important.
DonM

Casio has raised the bar. You can be sure Yamaha will not be out trumped for long.
They may not wait for a summer NAMM either.
Stakeeper

I was hoping Casio would release an MZ-3000. They were really heading in the right direction with the MZ-2000. Boy the MZ-2000 had some kick ass speakers.... Ohhh lord the bass it put out If Casio added the 17 track sequencer and pattern sequencer from the MZ-2000 to the WK-3500 I'd buy it.

Squeak

Hey Squeak,
Do you know if Yamaha discontinued production of the PSR550? I thought George Kay said it was discontinued, but cannot find his post. Might be a forthcoming PSR600 soon.
You can be sure it will have a cool organ and live orchestra voices (since the new PSR450 has this). They might also impove the organ voices or DSP to keep it above the Casio WK3500.
Starkeeper


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Starkeeper,
Yup George said the 550 was discontinued and I think he said they have no intention in the near future to replace it either

Squeak

What?
Oh well I'm interested in the PSR1500 if it's not much more than the PSR1100.
Starkeeper

Couldn't stand it - I went and played the Casio 3500. I had previously seen a 3000 very briefly.
My opinion echos that of most of the others, it is a lot of keyboard for the money. I liked the piano and organs and some of the guitars. The key feel was excellent and the speakers sound really good and loud.
Some of the styles were very good--only two variations though. The drum sounds ranged from so-so to very good.
It was easy to operate and not very heavy.
They did a lot of things right.
DonM