What do you think folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaaijjzD_aE

Deane

Tyros 5 gets my vote juding by sound alone crisper cleaner...especially the Bones............

cant wait for the New S960

Not really a very good direct comparison, Deane.

I must say, I wasn't tempted by the Tyros5 and would only be interested if I was looking for a 76 note Tyros.

The Audio Drums don't interest me at all...too many restrictions, and my Tyros4 has all the sounds and styles I use the most.

I also like the overall sound of the Tyros4 better...it's the best Tyros Yamaha has made, in my opinion.

Thanks,

Ian

Funny, how we all hear differently

It sounds like Yamaha went to extremes to make the Tyros5 different from the Tyros4....Sometimes you can play around with sounds too much...In this comparison..The Tyros4 sounds better..

When I had my Tyros 5 I was not pleased with the new sound. I now have another Tyros 4. Returned the T5.

Deane

Deane, you know what's strange? I went through the very same situation with Tyros2 and Tyros3. I found the former to be "sweeter yet mellower" sounding than the latter, and I wasn't entirely surprised to find I was not alone in that determination.

However, some people actually preferred the sound of the Tyros3 to the T2 AND the Tyros4, so go figure?

I had a demo Tyros3 here, and I wasn't sure at that time if I would be taking an earlier retirement, so I wanted to get an instrument while i could still get my employee's discount.

I started looking for a new leftover Tyros2, but then scrapped the plan when I learned i'd be staying on a while longer.

The demo Tyros3 ended up with someone who really wanted it, and I got a PSR-S910 for a demo, another instrument of which I am very fond.

When the Tyros4 came out, I immediately liked how it sounded, which was, in my words, "sweet and mellow' much like the Tyros2, but with all the goodies of T3 and, of course, the new features I was hoping for, especially being able to use SA/SA2 voices in the accompaniments.

I've played a friend's Tyros5 several times now, and if I absolutely needed a 76-note arranger, I know I could live with it, perhaps even getting it to sound more like the Tyros4, but luckily, a 61 note keyboard is all I need for arranger work.

It's strange how the sound seems to have changed on every second Tyros, even if some say it's only minor.

Ian

Speaking of the Tyros 5.

I was with my music dealer getting a job done on my midi

accordion last week and I hung around waiting for the job to be

finished. I started looking at the keyboards on display to kill

a bit of time. After awhile I stumbled across the 76 note

Tyros 5. I have heard many demos and it sounds fabulous.

It was not setup to play on the day, but the thing that "hit

me" was it's build. For an instrument priced at over €4000 or

nearly $4500 dollars, it looked and felt so cheap.

I just feel IMHO, the casing and keyboard could be a lot more

robust for such a great instrument.

Just my opinion, that's all.

Frank

honestly from that video, if i closed my eyes and didnt know it was two different keyboards, ide think it was the exact same keyboard...

there's no noticeable difference in sound quality there at all.

Tyros5 is much bester than Tyros4,i like it!

There is a slight difference but no way could you say one was definitely better than the other . They both sound great