Ian and Cassip,
I have owned only four keyboards since I started playing again(I walked away from a professional career in 1975) - a Yamaha Motif, a Korg PA1X, and I currently own and gig with both a Tyros 3 and a PSR3000. I have tried the S900 several times but just don't get the "buy me now" urge for it. Everytime I take out my PSR3000 I wonder why Yamaha can't produce a Tyros 3 product in a PSR3000 size instrument.

What got me started thinking about this was a special gig I played doing only "DJ" work. Yea I know, real musicians don't to "DJ" work. But what happened was I have a regular senior gig I play and the residents are all from small towns around Dallas. As such, they are really into hard core country music. So I decided to put together an hour of the really old stuff - things you don't even hear played on the classic country radio anymore. Well, the residents absolutely loved it and responded with enthusiasm and applause after every song. Kind of surprised me actually.

But the real kicker was me leaving the house without a keyboard. All I had was my laptop and one of my Bose Compact speakers. Talk about a light load. So I got to thinking about the available keyboards out there and posted my question.
My personal conclusion was there are not any really high end sounding keyboards in that weight range and I was wondering what all of you thought.

Hammer