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My Pa4x failed last week. How reliable is a made in China Genos?
bluali:
My made in China Pa4x failed last week :o. it does not produce any sound anymore. unfortunately its warranty has been expired on November. I have to take it to the Korg repair center and pay $50 for evaluation and repair cost estimate. Now I have to go all my live gigs with my (made in Japan)Tyros5 which has been working good in my studio since 2014. I used to own many models of Korg(Pa80, Pa1x, Pa2x) and all of them worked solid with many years. my old Pa1x which I gave it to my nephew is still working with no problem. this incident of keyboard failure made me worry about reliability of a made in China ??? Genos which I plan to get it as soon as it is available in January. I am not used to pay extra money for the extended warranty since I expect a pro keyboard must be reliable enough for once or twice a week usage.
Pianoman:
Hi Blueali.
Almost everything we own and use nowadays comes from China.
They were making firearms when we were still living in caves.
I won't go into all the achievements of the Chinese because I think Gary had that covered in a previous post on the same subject.
I would suppose that even though they are made in China, they will do so under Yamaha guidelines and supervision.
I discovered that my Samsung S8 Plus was made in Vietnam.
It works beautifully and I've dropped it 3 times by accident.
The last time was when I was reading in bed and fell asleep.
I found it on the floor the next morning. Not a scratch to be seen anywhere.
But the Genos owners will be able to elucidate more on the subject.
I still don't have one.
The dealer had skipped town with his family in tow.
There was a five day long weekend here.
They're on holiday somewhere in the Sierra Nevada.
He should be back on Wednesday.
With luck he may break a leg or something.
Best Regards,
Pianoman.
Toril S:
Hello Bluali. Failures can happen to all electronic gear. I assume that you have checked the power adapter and done a factory reset.
I wished your keyboard a speedy recovery. Not fun when this happens!
Lee Batchelor:
Bluali, there's an old saying, "Speed of the leader, equals speed of the group." Translated, it means, "As long as Yamaha is paying the bills they will watch quality control like a hawk." Just as soon as the Chinese screw up, Yamaha will pull production, I'm sure.
I just bought a brand new 2018 Honda Odyssey. Honda has been and will always be one of the best autos out there, but these are made in the good old U.S. of Trump. It has the worst build quality I've ever seen. Fenders out of alignment, doors that won't latch unless you slam them, pulls in the carpet...I could go on! I've owned several previous Honda cars, all made in Japan. They were flawless. Honda is NOT watching the quality control in their Alabama plant, and my opinion, Honda needs to fire all of them and go back to making cars in Japan.
A Chinese built Genos will be fine as long as Yamaha doesn't mimic the Honda build quality model.
bluali:
thank you all for the comments. I hope that whatever you are saying about Yamaha quality controls is true. This is a hope based on our good experiences with Yamaha products. Although I expect that Korg as another well-known Japanese company have the similar quality controls, I was shocked when I visited a Korg forum and learned that there is a noticeable difference of the hardware quality between the Pa4x and pa3x. I downloaded these two pictures from inside of the two korg keyboards. obviously the Korg Pa4x board looks without any EMF shields or protections >:(. I just circled the power filter boards for a quick comparison. I expect the new China made Genos works solid and well protected with a high quality components.
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