WOW, the E-A7 is $1,000 cheaper than a SX-900 (MAP price) so maybe I should look at it too???
How are the sounds for instrumental performance compared to SX-900??
Lee
It's just my guess, but the guess is that E-A7 can be a dissapointment comparing to SX900.
I know that I've never tried E-A7 personally. Watched videos. Also, I have Juno DS, which supposedly shares some of its sounds with E-A7. As for saxes, flutes, oboe, other orchestra sounds, I'd say, it looses even to PSR-3000 with some exceptions (some strings). The same is about guitars. Consider that SX900 is a fifth generation after PSR-3000, and all major sounds were updated a few times.
I see that in specific cases other factors can become more important, but so far I was not impressed with any of E-A7 videos, sometimes a term "General MIDI" comes to mind when I listen to its guitars or oboe (I have a special feeling to oboe).
But not everything can be judged by videos. I'm very curious about E-A7 myself, but in a situation when there's only one keyboard to have, I'd think 10 times before choosing it.