Thanks Michael for all your hard work comparing these excellent keyboards, I have had my PSR9000 since January 2000, and to my ears the sounds are really spot on, in the past I have played flute, guitar and piano, the PSR9000 produces all these faithfully and practically all the other sounds are of equal quality.
People are always critising the styles for being staid and boring, I personally like the internal styles because they do not steal the limelight away from the player and after all this is the most important part of the player/keyboard relationship, but for people who prefer fully orchestrated styles,
try www.egroups.com/group/yamaha-psr-styles
and download "style9000.zip", "style4m.zip"
and "style2m.zip", they were programmed by yamaha in italy and they are definately a departure from the usual Yamaha styles, the italian website also sells a 6gb Hard drive already programmed with 33MB of new styles and 1000 XG backing tracks(my italian is non existent so this bit might be wrong), I will certainly be making enquiries about it. Presumably these styles represent the future direction for Yamaha, I'm sure with the advent of 9000pro their will be further quality styles available, that will hopefully be back compatible with the 9000 (I will keep my fingers crossed anyway).

Paul.


[This message has been edited by Paul A Smith (edited 10-15-2000).]