Thoughts of buying a Yamaha S08

[Eric Zane]

Two days ago me and my father checked out some really cool keyboards in central town (Gothenburg, Sweden).

At first I was looking for a Kurzweil PC2X, but I early realised that I wouldn't found one. But instead I saw the angel who've just landed. A Yamaha S90. But there's also one part that does matter in this case, and that is money. With a cost of 23000 SEK ($3014) you just had to have an alternative.

We went to another musicstore and found the littlesister to S90; S08. With a great sale on the S08 at only 10000 SEK ($1310) I think I've decided.

What are your thoughts about this? I have to add; I don't think I have $3000. ;)

[Tigerfolly]

Two days ago me and my father checked out some really cool keyboards in central town (Gothenburg, Sweden).

At first I was looking for a Kurzweil PC2X, but I early realised that I wouldn't found one. But instead I saw the angel who've just landed. A Yamaha S90. But there's also one part that does matter in this case, and that is money. With a cost of 23000 SEK ($3014) you just had to have an alternative.

We went to another musicstore and found the littlesister to S90; S08. With a great sale on the S08 at only 10000 SEK ($1310) I think I've decided.

What are your thoughts about this? I have to add; I don't think I have $3000. ;)

Wow, that's some serious markup. Last winter, when I was still working in sales, we were selling S90s for $1,899. It's just a shame shipping costs are so expensive, you could probably find it cheaper in a nearby country (UK? France? Germany?) or even the US.. but who knows what the shipping costs would bring the total up to :P

As for the S08, it's not bad, but it was never all that impressive of a board to me either. It's a good middle-of-the-road keyboard, nothing great, but nothing bad. Some solid sounds, standard Yamaha interface. I prefer the Roland XP and RS boards to it and the smaller Yamaha S03 though, as well as the Alesis boards.

[maJ estY]

In my local music store here in Germany, they're selling their last S08s for 999.-€, which is a bit more than 1000 U.S. $.
Even though I don't know anything about Yamaha synths... I would propose that you try out other keyboards of other manufactures of the same price range, so that you can compare!!!

[Eric Zane]

Well, the fact is that this was a huge sale from 17000 SEK ($2225). But I saw the Kurzweil K2600X at $2,499.95 and that difference does matter alot.

I'll check out your tips guys and I'll try to find what the shipping cost would be inclusive the keyboard cost.

Edit:

S08 - $1,199.95
S90 - $1,899.95
Shipping - http://www.americanmusical.com/shipping.asp?UID=2003101211141256