However, as difficult as it can be for me to admit, my cousin who was using Tyros 3 for last 5 years, happened to check out Korg PA5X and is now more inclined towards it now.
Regards
Anand
Hi anandmaloo,
Price is going to vary depending on where you are, but honestly if someone is going to spend that amount of money on an instrument it's no longer about price but has to be about the instrument that you're going to get on with the most and have absolutely no regrets getting.
I have both the Genos and Pa5x and both are exceptional instruments, they really are. I do have my opinions about them both positive and negative alike, but I do agree with Jeff here if you have been playing only Yamaha's then switching to something completely different may overwhelm you at first, especially if you want to hit the ground running - which I've always believed was why the like of Korgs and Yamaha predominantly made incremental updates so that you are STILL able to just port stuff across easily and use it like your older model if need be. Although things of late have changed a little as both the Genos and Pa5x have changed the OS quite significantly from older models but that's not the point here because as a Yamaha only user like in your case, switching to another brand may impact you unless you have the capacity to embrace & learn something new and have time for it, then why not, a change is good sometimes, but I will guarantee you that you always return to the "first love", I did. I started with Yamaha's and I don't think I could live without one again.
I have been fortunate to be able to own more than one arranger so it's been Yamaha and Korg since the Tyros3 days where I had the Pa1x and Tyros 3 combination it's been like that ever since now with Genos and Pa5x. If I had to pick one, at a real big push only because of certain things still lacking in the Korg that Yamaha has, it would be Yamaha first until that changes. Yamaha still has the most amazing scats, vocal sounds and choirs that I've ever heard anywhere, the ones in Korg have improved but are still weak in comparison and this impacts the music I play.
So think about the change before you make it, although to be fair you said you had a T3 which didn't have hardly any of those sounds as they were introduced from the T4 so I think you'll be quite pleasantly surprised if you like those sounds.
All the best whatever you choose,
Danny.