Thank you all for your attention, I appreciate it.

In fact I keep thinking about the idea that a digital piano can in fact be the thing which I need. Perhaps I will have to use both units.

Last Sunday I was in Moscow. Turned out that Casio has its own showroom there. The hall with Casio instruments and a polite girl to help you with them. I went there to check again PX-560 (it seems that it starts to disappear from stores). The girl took it from a shelf (with my help); put it on a stand and offered me a seat, so it was rather comfortable. As it is not a store, they do not make sells, so there’s no pressure to buy something. In the same time it was rather lonely there; so you feel yourself in a center of attention.

As for PX-560, I liked the piano sound better than the last time I tried it (I didn’t feel good back then presumably because I used to drink too much coffee and tea; now I’m totally caffeine-free). Not so sure about electric pianos, as for the rest of the voices I decided not to judge them at all because it is a digital piano first. The accompaniment has a problem with “fills” (you have to pick a right moment to activate it); but I liked the overall sound of drums and strings.

I tried CT-X5000 for just a moment. My impression was rather good; better, than judging by YouTube.

I think that after about 30 minutes of trying a keyboard you lose your focus, so I don’t try to check a lot of keyboards in one take.

Then I went to a store nearby; I tried Roland Go Piano (61) and I was impressed with the quality and variety of piano and electric piano sounds. It’s a shame the 88 keys version is so limited; and they don’t have something in between 61 and 88.

Finally, I tried Yamaha P-121. The keybed itself made a good impression on me. But as for the sound, after having played PSR-S950 for many years, all piano and electric piano voices appeared too familiar, if not identical.

Everyone has his own needs, or at least wishes.

Recently I took my PSR-S950 to the service, and they fixed all the problems it had (contact strips, a pitch bend, unresponsive controls, noisy keys) for about $100. And so far I doubt that even switching to PSR-SX900 would be such a huge step. It’s like if you wear suits all the time, sooner or later you might want to switch to something casual, instead of buying a new suit.

I see now that it might be what being biased is about; mostly adapting personal judgments to personal conditions...