I have to ask something... Is this the same company who's keyboards back in the days of the PSR8000 was IMO a "same old story" type kb??? Let me explain.... Ive had been a fan of yamaha since my teen days when first owning the delightful PSS-780 (you know the one with the joystick and multi coloured fill in pads! It all started then for me, and when i was able to afford my first "real" keyboard, i stuck with Yamaha and got the PSR-500. At the time, i loved it and went on to get upgrade to the PSR510, PSR620, PSR7000 & lastly the PSR8000. So thats around approx 8 years of Yamaha experience. By the time i got to the PSR8000, it got to the point where id heard it all before, because in each of the mentioned kbs, it resembled one another. Maybe i didnt do the PSR8000 justice (like maybe someone who had used a Yamaha kb for the first time would of), but i was pretty dissapointed with not how it sounded, but how similar it all was... I guess that this is where i can relate to those who are experiencing the same thing with the mentioned Technics past and present kbs.

So after the PSR8000, i didnt bother with the 9000 series and jumped from the PSR8000 to the Korg i30 to the GEM WK series to finally the X1 (not counting the recent purchase of my 2nd board which is the PA-60) i am just talking about my main kb. The way the Tryos has been described here WAS the same feeling i got when trying the X1, simply because it was something very new and totally different from the Yamahas.. Never looked back really..

Now, when i hear of something like the Tryos coming onto the scene with many glowing opinions, i am thinking "can this possibly be this good from the same people that made the PSR8000 which i was dissapointed with?" Granted, that the PSR8000 is an old board, but it wasnt that long ago since it was Yamaha's best board. And i am sure that people still use it to this day...

So what i am saying really is can Yamaha really produce a kb thats drastically different from previous past models OR can people see any resemblence of the PSR8000/9000 in the Tryos? Because if your saying its completely different, i may have to take this seriously and perhaps "dare i say" return back to my first love one day!!!!

Obviously, the best thing to do is to hear it for myself, but i dont have dealers near me locally so it would mean travelling around to find somewhere... so thats why i trust this message board 100%

Nice comments anyway about the Tryos, definately a kb i will need to look at.. if it can convert an old Yamaha veteran like me, then i think it will definately be something special!!!

[This message has been edited by DannyUK (edited 10-05-2002).]