Well, Henni, I'd say you just learned a good lesson.

I'd probably feel the same way going from my Tyros4 to an Audya...in my case, I just wouldn't warm up to the sound and styles of the latter.

At least you gave it a try, but maybe, as Donny and Gary pointed out, you just didn't do enough tweaking with it.

However, I have my doubts if you'll ever find anything to completely replace your old Audya so, good or bad, you're stuck with it.

Perhaps you may consider putting the money you get from selling the S950 towards another similarly set up Audya, for as you probably know, these (and all other brand) instruments eventually simply wear out and will need hardware replacements like key contact strips, buttons/panel switches and even hard disk drives.

It would be very difficult to get any kind of an instrument fixed quickly, and you would likely end up with some unpleasant down time if you didn't have a back-up.

If I was to go back to gigging as steady as I used to, I'd get another Tyros4 for backup, in spite of the usually great reliability record of the instrument....not all problems are a result of the equipment simply failing...sometimes things get bumped and dropped accidentally.

Ian

First off NEVER do anything with headphones on....just sayin ;-)