You might want to get a better monitoring system or clean the cotton out of your ears if you believe the Audya didn't sound much better than the PSR-S900. It was very apparent on my monitors the Audya demos were punchier, more live, more realistic, and on an entirely different level than any Yamaha arranger I've heard or owned. The ghosting and snare buzz on the drums alone show that Ketron took the time to make the drums sound real.

Given the fact MP3's are but a fraction of the true frequency range of the real instrument the Audya probably sounds phenomenal in person. I've played the PSR-S900 in person many times and I just don't understand what the hype is about it. Yamaha arrangers are thin, canned sounding, and their stereo separation is quite poor. With the exception of a few SA2 voices I don't see Yamaha offering anything that puts them ahead of any other TOTL arranger.

Yamaha could have made great strides forward with the T3 and put the high end Clavinova Piano as standard on the T3 and had hundreds of SA2 voices instead of just a few. The reason they didn't, to make more money! Adding a few hundred MB piano sound to the Tyros 3 would easily cut into their Clavinova sales and there's no way that Yamaha would allow that. Utilizing hundreds of SA2 voices would have taken far more ROM which costs money. Rather than lower their profit margin Yamaha would prefer to sell the customer short and make them want the next model. Hope is an amazing thing and it's making Yamaha rich, keeping hope alive that their next TOTL arranger will be the panacea. It never is, it probably never will be, but those that believe the hype plink down their hard earned cash to find out.