This is all well and good to say the merchants put their best foot forward and not to expect the same when you open it up. You must ask yourself in what area is yours deficient. I assume they cherry pick songs to demo,maybe tweek the sounds;maybe not. Some demonstrators are very good,playing their best stuff. If one is disappointed,is it because you can't play like them on their chosen songs?-A little unrealistic.

We are all somewhat the same,but different. Donny is very picky,and that's not a put down. I look at basic sound,features,and reliability,with the idea of OOTB is as bad as it can get,and up from there.

With this said,I have never been so delighted with the sound of a keyboard as I have with the SX900,since my old Audya days. Everything is balanced with the thought that most customers are not going deep into the machine,and that's good,because that is Korg territory. The effects and styles,to me, are great. Nuff said

Give it really good test run the only way you going to find out. If it's really for you. For a couple of days you could always send it back.... but you might like it. Don't overthink it. Good luck.

I wish he would share his registration for that Organ...
I like it....

Thanks Donny for the AC Hamilton video. Reminds again how very poor both sound out of the box, although admittedly the Yamaha fares a lot better than the Korg. You know I have played Korg arrangers for nigh on 20 years now but I can never imagine that folks who are unable or unwilling to tweak in great depth would be tempted to buy a Korg arranger. By contrast Yamaha have virtually geared their arrangers and most definitely the SX series to the home entertainer who basically does not want to do any tweaking or progamming whatsoever. That having said of course does not main that a professional entertainer would not be able to avail himself of the SX, like for instance Uncle Dave does...

regards
John

P.S. why on earth do they forever keep harking back to the guitar songs by the Shadows, like e.g. Apache, etc. We already knew with the release of the Tyros 2 that they sound much better and closer to the original on the Yamahas.....but it being songs well over 60 years old they do tend to get over exposed in my view......

I loved it,well, because I am over sixty I guess. Also,Telmo has a great creative gift,as well as know how to blend in the other sounds. I think his ambient intro is outstanding. He sure makes that SX900 sound super.