First of all, great to hear both sides of the coin! However I am a little mystified by your comments. You mentioned that you didnt have chance to play or see the T2 in the flesh before purchasing, but I would have thought that despite not actually playing the keyboard you would have realised that it had 5 octaves and looked as it does?
As for the sounds, well of course that's subjective but having listened to the PA1X demo CD from Korg, I have to strongly disagree.
Distortion is an interesting point though, as I feel there is a slight fuzziness from the TRS-MS02's in the lower mid range.. but that wouldn't affect the line outs. I've played the T2 into a top class hifi system without any problems of distortion, perhaps there is a serious mismatch with your mixer?
Styles? There is so much said about Yamaha styles, demos and mp3s by the bucketful. I am surprised you jumped in and spend this amount of money without ever listening to a demo or mp3, or maybe I am wrong? It seems you've never heard a Yamaha instrument before?
The factory level settings are just that, and of course everyone will want to set up the instrument as they prefer. There is more than enough flexibility in the T2 to achieve this and retain it in registrations.

Of course this is all my own opinions, for which I personally enjoy and love Yamaha's arranger keyboards. That's not to say I dont like other boards, I still think Korg and Roland offer some great warm and fat synthy sounds but I personally find Yamaha has the edge on orchestral voices.

Simon


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