There is something about the PA80 that is VERY GREAT! It is special! I was swept off my feet when I first played it! But as some others have said... I started to notice bugs in it I couldn't live with. I would be proud to have the pa80 if they fixed them as my second arranger keyboard. I hope the pa60 addresses some of these bugs.
The psr9000 seems like a more mature arranger, higher class,more polished (which makes sense since yamaha has been making arrangers for years and the PA80 is KORGS very first ARRANGER ), ... but I like the Brashness of the PA80 too, although I've learned about adjusting the Sounds in the psr9000 I can get that IN YOUR FACE sound of the PA80 ... but in the PA80 ...it's factory set like that from the start!

In fact, I wasn't sure I liked the psr9000 in the beginning after owning the pa80... but the more i learned about it and played it ... i keep being surprised by it and all it can do...and it still Blows my Mind with what it can do!!! The pa80 had the opposite effect on me... I loved it instantly and fell out of love with it after a couple of weeks! Funny how it turned out!

I guess the styles issue is moot point, since you can import any BRANDS styles in any of these keyboards. Although, you should check yourself, I know psr has lots of free styles online, but, korg styles seems to be offline as of 6/22/02(fabio's site) ... but it might come back online. Irish ACTS has pa80 forum... Yahoo's pa80 forum is closed. And Awareness pa80 forum has only a few posts on site. Whereas yahoo psr styles forum has 2,500 people on it - with a File Database in the forum.





[This message has been edited by rgtaa (edited 06-22-2002).]