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I have one for rehearsals. Live I use a QSC K10 (or two).The Alto really comes near. I don't miss the K10 when I'm reheasing. Its amazing this thing only costs 1/3 of the K10 when performing near the K10.

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Alto TS308, fantastic sound, loud, small!

Live I (used to) use a Key Largo (2 keyboards, so relatively simple). In my studio I have lots of line-level sources. I used to use a Berhinger X32 together with about five RX1602 mixers. I've now replaced that with four times a (still) Behringer XR-18. That gives me 72 line-inputs which are converted to digital, and I can record via USB, I made my own (passive) summing mixer. So now all my keyboards in my studio are connected. If I play anything, I can hear it (I don't have to patch anything, so nothing stands in the way of creativity). With the noise-gates on the XR-18's, my studio is also silent. I'm very happy with this solution.

Here in the Netherlands there has been a noticable price decrease the last few days. Is there a YC73 approaching....?

I have a Crumar Seven. I bought it only for the Rhodes simulation. I have two real Rhodes pianos, and have had years of Nord ownership behind me. Likes: it gives me a very organic sound. Playing it has elements of playing a real Rhodes, the way it reacts to my playing is great, no other keyboard does that. Bandmates remark on the cool look, it's relatively light, sounds much better than the Nord Rhodes samples. When using an external proper Fender Twin simulation (the built-in one is not that good) it has all aspects of playing a real Rhodes. Dislikes: It's typical Italian: great design, bad execution. It gives too much (digital) noise in live situations. The construction is bad, after owning it for 1 day, I already had some defects on the case. And I still think the sound is not that perfect. I hated the keyboard in the early days. Now I've been used to it. For a real Rhodes you have to work hard playing it, and with the Crumar Seven thats the same. I hate that the volume knob is an encoder and not a potentiometer, I cannot do some volume tricks I can do on a real Rhodes because the encoder needs many turns to have any effect. I don't care for the non-Rhodes sounds. I have almost as much fun playing a Rhodes sounds on my Modx8. I am very interested in the new Yamaha one, and the Legend.

Yesterday I had a problem with my Seven. During band-practice it started to trigger random notes while playing. I've been careful with my Seven and don't transport it that much, but this was disappointing. Anybody else had this?

I did install a variable resistor and used it to adjust the aftertouch to my taste while playing on the A80 with the 'lid' open. I'm not sure your description is correct, it was a long time ago I did this mod, and I don't have my A80 anymore... Grtz, Jeroen

Years ago, when I still had my A80, I did this mod myself, and finaly the aftertouch was usable. Recommended! Grtz, Jeroen