Hi!!!!!

I got my PSR-9000 last week and I am very
satisfied with it. My other choises
where X1, KN6000 and I know that there is
also G-1000 and i30 but I wanted a keyboard
with internal speakers and vocal harmonizer.
There is also Generalmusic WK8 but we don´t
have GEM dealers in the town I live. Here is
my opinion bout the three. But remember I am
only 17 years old and my english is not good.

Technics KN6000

Our import dealer recomended this keyboard
for me when he was presenting it and the X1
in the instrument shop. That time this board
had the chord recognition problem but I knew
that it will be fixed soon or later with soft
ware update so for me it wasn´t a problem but
what was bothering me was the distortion from
the internal speakers. I didn´t play even
loud and still I could hear the distortion
when I tryied this keyboard at home. I think
this problem is fixed now. But here is what
else I found out. No sampler and poor vocoder
but the most beautiful and the most user
friendly keyboard in the world. The screen
is fantastic and the styles are the best I
have ever heard. PSR-9000 and X1 have also
great styles but the KN6000 had the best. I
don´t know why but somehow they sounded so
real that I can not find words to describe
it. The sounds where good also. Piano
sounds are also the best of the three and
the soloist sounds are fantastic also. I did
not like the strings and the pipe organs that
much. The internal sound system was maybe the
best (not the distortion). The quality of the
internal speakers is great (still PSR-9000 is
a bit better) and no matter how loud you had
the keyboard there was no hiss at all. I
could not hear any hiss not from the speakers
and not from the headphones and this keyboard
has 60 watts of power so it can go very loud
but still I don´t play loud becuse it is bad
for the keyboard and bad for my ears. Other
good things in this keyboard where the sound
controller and the style converter disk. One
bad thing was the expensive hard disk and the
size of it was only 3,2 gb. I like this board
very much.

Yamaha PSR-9000

My previous keyboard was PSR-4000 so I had
style disks and foot controllers for it and
the good thing was that I could use them with
PSR-9000 also. This keyboard has many great
features like video out, scsi, sampler and
vocal harmonizer and I can find use to all of
them but the sounds where the best in this
keyboard. KN6000 has the best piano sounds
but PSR-9000 has great piano sounds also.
Yamaha has also sweet, live & cool sounds and
they are all fantastic. Also the basic sounds
are the best. Yamaha sounds have been always
my favourite ones. The styles are good also.
I like the pop styles very much and also the
8 & 16 beats where good. The latin and soul
beats where also fine but still they where
better on the X1 and KN6000. Internal sound
system was great. The quality of the internal
speakers is the best and there is no much
hiss on the sound. A bit more than the KN6000
had but much less than the X1 has. The sound
can´t go very loud on the PSR-9000 and in
higher volumes it gets distorted but It
doesn´t bother me at all becuse I don´t play
loud. This is my favourite keyboard of the
three and it was my choice. I like it very
much. Now I am waiting for the 2.0 operating
system update.

Solton X1

"This is a stage keyboard for professional
keyboardplayers. I think you should look at
the KN6000" sayed the import dealer to me and
I did what he sayd. I heard all the praise
in this forum before I even saw the keyboard.
One day I wen´t to dealer to try this machine
and I decided to find out from where does all
praise come from. This "stage" keyboard was
fantastic. Almost all the sounds are great.
I did not like the grand piano at all. That
sounded miserable but the strings and the
organs I liked very much. Also guitars and
the saxophones where gut. Flutes also. The
styles sounded very "live" and almost all of
them where good. I did not like the dance
styles that much but still it had some great
rap & hip hop beats. Also other pop styles
and ballads where not my favourite but the
country, latin and jazz styles where great
and very live sounding. The internal sound
system disappointed me. It could go very loud
but the quality of the speakers was bad and
there was too much hiss on the sound and also
from the headphones I could not hear nothing
but hiss at lower volumes and to hear
something more than hiss I had to turn the
volume very high and that is very bad for my
ears. My dealer connected the keyboard to
external speakers and it sounded much better.
This keyboard is not as user friendly as the
PSR-9000 and KN6000. The way you select the
sounds are styles is not something that I
like very much. But still this instrument is
not a bad keyboard to use. Other good thing
with this instrument is the memory slot and
the good sampler. I think that X1 has better
sampler than the PSR-9000. The Yamaha has
mono sampling and that is bothering me a bit.
Why is it mono? Why not stereo? So after I
tryied this keyboard I found out from where
does all the praise come from and when
I was walking to the bus station from the
instrument shop I sayed to myself that "This
is a stage keyboard but I could really have
one in by bedroom"

Michael