Steve ... BUDDY !!!... I can't keep up with you and your "board of month" ... sounds like you have "out-Donny'ed" Donny !! ...
Best of luck with it ...
And make sure you don't wear yourself down my friend ...
t.

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Steve,

Congratulations on the new board. Let's hope your search has ended! We fully expect a thorough review, especially compared to the Tyros 2 as I'm considering the Pa2x as well and I'm moving from the T2; mostly for the 76 keys.

Best of luck and make some great music!!!

Regards,
Al

Thanks Steve , again , best of luck and happy playing !

Gary 

Steve, I am most happy for you. many people don't realize that your and my searches for keyboards over the past year have not been will nilly. They have been an honest search for a "keeper" keyboard. i know you've finally found what you want in tha PA2x. Enjoy, enjoy enjoy.

BTW, don't be writin' no glorious reviews of the thing telling how great it is and how nice the keyboard feels. I ain't buyin' nuttin' new; even on your recommendation.


Good luck, good SZ friend.
Cass

First off....Cass I think you should sell the Hammond & E60 & get a PA2x you know its a perfoect fit for you

Second....Tony ...I'm honored to pass the baton to Steve as the SZ KB Switcheroo KING of the year!!! Im proud of him.


Now will someone please make something new....I'm gettin bored already

rb293, I spent sometime this afternoon A/b/ing the piano on the Korg and on my Yamaha Clav CVP 307. I did the A/B thru a set of Bose model TP1a head phones. The CVP Grand Piano 1 and Grand Piano2 ( #2 could be a Steinway sample). Have the edge on the PA2xPro, but not by much! If anything the Korg was a brighter sound, but excellent.

There was some comment in the recent review Keyboard player review about the keys being noisy. I turned volumes down on both the Korg and the Clavinova so that no sound came out of either instrument. Both instrument keys made about the same amount of noise. But what else could you expect?

A neat feature on the Korg is when you use the damper pedal you can actually hear as you do in an acoustic piano the dampers being lifted off the strings. Maybe that's a little bit of a gimmick, but nevertheless kind of a cool effect.


Tony, I wasn't trying to beat Donny!! Honest I can live with 61 keys, but it's so much nicer to have the 76 keys. It just feels good to sit at a board with those extra keys and with the action. Donny thanks for passing the torch.

Al I think you're gonna love the PA2xPro. I don't remember how much you depend on using styles. One thing as we all know is that the variety of Yamaha styles along with 3rd party styles have the edge.............but when you take the more live sound terrific pianos, physical sliders and Songbook feature. I'm sure you're bound to miss a couple of Tyros2 features, but not enough to regret selling it. I like the form factor of the Korg as well, much smaller than the G70 and not as deep as the Tyros 2.

Cass you're gonna love the feel of the keys!!! You're right we both searched for the right board, took a while but found it.

Adimatis at first look the PA500 and the PA800 have a real similar appearance, but once you start looking and playing you'll notice a difference. Key feel on the 500 is not as solid feeling as the 800. Buttons to change styles and voices are not the quality in the PA800. The printing near the buttons that describe what each button does is in larger print. My understanding is no USB for attaching a thumb drive. I believe it takes a flash card instead. Overall, my impression is you're getting a lot of bang for the buck.