... and it is going to be wrapped inside the Pa900 I bought from Coaster Tim today !!!

Tim literally "made me an offer I could NOT refuse" ...
I had never even spoken to Tim before yesterday but through our limited e-mails and our phone conversation I know that he is a very honest and fair gentleman ... he was a pleasure to 'deal' with, although there was not much 'dealing' going on ...
Now I can't wait until Tuesday or Wednesday when it will be delivered ...

Tony, Tim is always the best...and always more than fair..

BTW: you beat me to the punch..I was late checking my messages..

Tony Congratulatons on your New Korg pa900...at least now you'll be familiar with the OS.......are you selling the old pa600?

Thanks ... yes the 600 is for sale ...

Hi Tony

these are really good news: the PA-900 is a terrific board, easily the best value for your money in the Korg line-up!
Can't wait to hear your first recording with it...

Tony,

Hey, why did I know that you bought the PA900

Best of luck and congratulations with the PA900, look forward to getting to your place to check it out soon!

Steve how does the T5 compare to your T4 so far? and hows your first week retired?

Donny, didn't you get the email - Steve has already come out of retirement to become a contestant escort.

I guess they picked Steve for the job over me - Damned!

Gary

wow I thought he'd be in Florida for a few months just to compress from that life long 9-5 grind??

Donny, I finally picked up the T5-76 yesterday. I was one of the last to place and order with Frank, I think I was something like #41 in line to receive one. I was supposed to get it a week ago but the delivery was delayed I believe due to weather. Frank was telling me these boards aren't shippped via UPS or Fedex, they are shipped by a freight company.

My initial impressions without going into details is that it is sonically better sounding than the T4, plus with 76 keys it's one "beast" of a board. It's too bad Yamaha didn't produce a t4-76, I probably wouldn't have upgraded. Lots of motivation for me to upgrade was the 76 key model., but that's not the only reason. Reminds me when I went to demo Pa3x, I was just expecting a little differen Pa2x Pro, but it was much more, again I found a sonic difference in the sound. Have to believe you Gary and others may have had a similar experience upgrading to the s950. BTW, haven't forgot about your request, but with just getting the board. You'll get some e-mail from me this week.

So far the first week has been do what I want when I want to Right now taking some to chill, then later this month we have a short trip planned during the week. Florida well it's in the cards but just not at present due to some family circumstances, looks like we'll be spending a few weeks there in March.

Gary, yes that escort job was right up my alley but I applied a day too late. Donny, yea you could have had it too if you applied earlier enough, better go back to check Gary's original e-mail.

OK, now it can be told ... I got that job ... just don't tell my wife ...

Damned, some guys have all the luck!

Gary

Enjoy Steve lifs too short to dilly dally!

Be interesting to have a comparison between PA2X and PA3X, and T4 and T5, but with ALL the mastering compression and EQ turned off.

Personally, I believe a lot of what many people hear as an initial change in overall sound boils down to different Mastering settings...

The best way to see if there really IS any real difference would be to play the same style through each. After all, probably MOST of what we end up playing on a new arranger is still the styles we have got used to, or SMF's we have tweaked to be their best on the old arranger. If there really IS an overall change in sound quality, should be apparent without the mastering EQ and compression.

Then listen to the two arrangers playing the same style with the default Mastering settings for each... NOW is there a perceived difference? If so, you can probably get most of what appears to be the new arranger's improvement by simply using the new Mastering settings on the old instrument.

Sure, this doesn't account for new sounds used in new styles, but, as I said, quite likely most of us don't redo our songbook 100% to always use the best of what's new...