Nice comparison, .....to me the KORG sounds more live crisp and clear.
Add a TC Helicon VH & Songbook feature, large tilt display etc, & you have my choice out of these two.

all the best

To me, the Yamaha sounded much fuller and richer, the Yamaha drums, IMO, were far more realistic.

Gary

I like Bonners demo videos. Good fair comparison.

Never thought I'd say this - Korg!

Gary, you are the first one to say Yamaha S series drums are better than Korg! You been talkin' to Eileen again?

It’s all subjective my answer is ya gotta own both.

I’m leaning toward the Korg even though both boards are great.

Why hasn’t Korg fixed that bug that sounds like it “trips” when changing patterns? It reminds me of a bad edit when splicing audio tape. It was a problem on my pa600, and it appears to still be an issue.

Yamaha needs to update the acoustic guitars. They sound the same as Tyros 1.
Yamaha has better EP’s. Drums are punchier on Korg (could be volume and eq...but I doubt it). For some reason, the sound quality of the psr series has been dull. It’s improved from the psr-s900 (which was extremely dull), but still seems a bit dull compared to the Korg. Maybe lower quality dac’s on the Yamaha. Just my opinion.

jingleman

They both have their strengths .... and their weaknesses.

At times the Korg sounds boxy.. and at times the Yamaha sounds lifeless..

Surely there is no edge going to Yamaha from me... concerning the drums.. Are they better than they were 20 years ago.. Yes... better than other brands.. No..

They each have some great lead sounds... and clunkers too..

Styles are just styles to me... they each have usable styles and many I would never use..

Neither compare to their Big Brothers... It has always been the case.. some folks can't hear the difference because they don't want to..

The Korg PA1000 and Yamaha psr s975 are not on my wish list..

First I do not prefer the sounds to what I have..
Secondly, They lack of features that are important to me (like reading chords extracted automatically from files). Korg stated it can ..but does not... you need to prepare the file to show chords..

Yamaha still has the worse playable keybed..(close tie with Casio)..


We are now talking about $2,000 keyboards.... sorry I want top models for that price.... and yes you can find them... People love to lose money (cost of doing business)..

WOW ... Gary picked the Yamaha ?!?