Completely agree on that!
Quite often we look at SX600 as a poor man's choice, where the truth is far from that. Unless we're nitpicking, the difference between i.e. SX900 and SX600 is much smaller than the pricing suggests. I had PSR-S670 (SX600 predecessor) before and I was quite impressed by it's sound and features.
The main reason why I sold it, was small display (which makes custom style creation quite difficult) and small memory amount -other than that, I was happy with it.
For first time buyers, who usually don't really know how far they will go, I always recommend SX600.
Bogdan
Hi Bogdan,
it's true that the s670 was the predecessor to the sx600; and you'd think all the features from it made it into the sx600.
But surprisingly, the note edit page for style creation is gone. You can record live, and quantize, and even use style assembly. But note by note creating (incl step recording) and editing of drum beats has been removed. So be aware that the sx600 (and it's shared architecture brother, the DGX670) aren't as versatile at style creating/editing as all the other Yamaha "pro" arrangers.
It also depends where you are. Here in North America, the sx700 is 70% of the price of the sx900, so might as well get the nicer model. In Europe, however? It's only 53% of the price of the sx900, which makes the sx700 much more attractive over there!
Sorry, I digress: will there be a new PSRsx900 successor? Eventually, of course. But as the sx900 arrived 2 years after the G1, the true successor (sx1000? sx910?) will likely arrive in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2025. There will likely be a stopgap model, let's say an sx905, that would potentially show up a year before that, which (given history) would be a repackaged PSRsx900, but with some new features and probably some sound packs pre-loaded (of the 3 packs that were preinstalled on the PSRs975, 3 were already previously available, and the 4th eventually showed up as a pack for the PSRsx series as well)
But assuming the psrsx900 and it's successor would be like G1 to G2? Unlikely.
The sx900 is *not* a Genos. The sound library is the same as the Tyros 5, but with all the S.Art 2 voices removed, but with Live drums that used the Revo drum mapping for style compatibility.
Which means more than likely the successor will be a Genos with all the S.Ar 2 voices removed, but with the REV reverb, and probably live versions of the Ambient drums.
So if you're willing to wait maybe 5-8 months for a repackaged sx900, or another 1.75-2 years for an actually sx900 successor (no idea if it will be called sx910, sx925, or sx1000) then by all means, wait. Depends how much of a hurry you're in,
Incidentally, if you dig through all the Genos 2 prediction posts, in mid 2022 I had said G2 would arrive Fall of 2023 at the earliest* and 2024 at the latest. Having said that, I too, would wait to see what's at NAMM (pjd is usually quite prophetic)
Mark
