HI . I just sold my 3 year old PSR S970 for a very good price as I was not using it but now Im getting the itch and missing my board. Looking at the PA1000 but I once had a PA1x and hated the sounds compared to Yamaha and went straight back to Yamaha. Wondering if I would have the same experience again. The S975 is too small an upgrade to buy new IMO. I always had a gripe with the S970 speakers (Used to have a s900) which had amazing speakers. So now Im thinking Korg PA1000 Or Psr S975 or Wait !!

How are you planing to use the keyboard?
John C.

80% at home recording songs for online publishing to YouTube etc and rest gigs. But thats very very few times. Like 2 times a year.

My impression is that the choice is in fact rather limited. And it gets more difficult because this kind of products is rather expensive. There isn’t one keyboard which does it all. Buying several of them could be some kind of a solution, if the resources allow it, but in the same time it can turn into some kind of addiction later. I guess there’ll always be a need for compromises. In my case not having it all forces me to play a $150 guitar of just not to play at all, to go outside, to pay more attention to different things and maybe I’m even feeling better this way, I don’t know.

Precisely my feeling too. Now that it's not there I'm doing other things which I usually did not do. Will hold on for a while

If the styles, navigation, and ergonomics of pa1000 (or another) are to your liking, think about supplementing the sounds with a small sound module like a Ketron sd1000 that can sit right on top. Has terrific sounds..

Or, fly over here, buy my sailing yacht and sail it back to India.

Good luck in your quest,

Gary

Sunstir,
Have you considered Dan's vArranger? You might take a look.

Deane

How are the speakers on the PA 1000 compared to the Yamaha s970/975.the speakers on my 975 sounded very boomy and in live gigs where I only used inboard speakers I was always asked to increase the volume.

that would be something