Aliexpress Yamaha keyboard psr sx900

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Are they good? Does anyone ever purchase any keyboard from Aliexpress? Price is cheap, I know it is most likely not original. But I wonder if the sound quality is good and if it loads voice and style expansion pack. The seller said it does load voice and style expansion pack and it is original, but I prefer to hear from users who buy from aliexpress. If it is not original, does it sound like the original?
 
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I have purchased In-Ear-Phones from them, but would not want a Keyboard shipped from China.

Far better to get a price deal from your local Yamaha retailer.
 
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I would not buy a paper clip from Ali Express.

Look up how they operate and then decide if it is for you.
I have bought through AliExpress for several years now, and I'm likely to continue doing so. I say "through" rather than "from", as Ali is more of a market place than Amazon (that also acts as a vendor itself). I have experienced some tricky vendors, but Ali's customer service has always been on my side.

I keep buying all sorts of things through Ali, including musical instruments. Not all make sound (like a master keyboard), not all are cheap (like a Jamstik Studio MIDI guitar).

Ali isn't always cheaper. I have identified musical accessories at Thomann that are cheaper than those offered through Ali, under different brands. Apart from that, buying through Ali does require you to be alert, to see through the clouds of keywords that the vendors use as tags, through the tricks the vendors use to be perceived as having the best offers, the ways and rates of shipping.

To me, Ali is like an Amazon marketplace. (For those who weren't aware: they all belong to Amazon, but it's up to vendors to choose the marketplaces they want to be present at. Funny: I have bought from German vendors through Amazon.nl that weren't on Amazon.de.) They are rather similar, not equal. - (I have not mentioned other webstores, but they do exist!) :)
 
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Are they good? Does anyone ever purchase any keyboard from Aliexpress? Price is cheap, I know it is most likely not original. But I wonder if the sound quality is good and if it loads voice and style expansion pack. The seller said it does load voice and style expansion pack and it is original, but I prefer to hear from users who buy from aliexpress. If it is not original, does it sound like the original?
While im not keen on buying from Ali Express, the SX900 keyboard is an excellent keyboard to get! It even has some of the sounds of the Genos 1 keyboard in it. The sounds will virtually blow you away, especially if you're coming through a professional sound board. An FYI, Yamaha is discontinuing this board. That usually means an upgrade. I would wait for the upgrade and if the new features are worth the price, invest. if not or you don't want or need them, get the SX900... but not from Ali Express!
 
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I have used Ali Express in the past, and bought mainly medical equipment from them. I have to say that I never had a problem with their delivery or after sales service, in fact just the opposite, their help to set up one of my devices via an Internet link went beyond the call of duty, and I personally have nothing but praise for them!
 
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Are they good? Does anyone ever purchase any keyboard from Aliexpress? Price is cheap, I know it is most likely not original. But I wonder if the sound quality is good and if it loads voice and style expansion pack. The seller said it does load voice and style expansion pack and it is original, but I prefer to hear from users who buy from aliexpress. If it is not original, does it sound like the original?
All the list of Yamaha PSR-SX900 on Aliexpress are click baits. They are not real product, either you will have a notice that product is not shipping to country that you live, or they want to get your email and personal info.
 
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Good luck getting it repaired when YOU will need to pack it up and send it back to China!

Just don't.
 
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While im not keen on buying from Ali Express, the SX900 keyboard is an excellent keyboard to get! It even has some of the sounds of the Genos 1 keyboard in it. The sounds will virtually blow you away, especially if you're coming through a professional sound board. An FYI, Yamaha is discontinuing this board. That usually means an upgrade. I would wait for the upgrade and if the new features are worth the price, invest. if not or you don't want or need them, get the SX900... but not from Ali Express!
Sorry to nitpick, *but* the sx900 has *none* of the non-drum voices added going from T5 to G1, because the sx900 is actually a T5 with all the S.Art 2 removed,but with G1 live drums and live versions of the G1 revo drums added. (the previous s970? actually a T4 with all the S.Art2 sounds removed, as well as all the new choir voices removed *except* for the Ooh/Aah variations, but with all the T5 drums added). See where I'm going with this? All it took was one person to call an sx900 a baby Genos, and it seemed like nobody looked under the hood.... the actual sound library from the sx900, other than the G1 drums, is 100% of the T5 minus S.Art 2 (first time that's actually happened in a while; the s970 lost a *lot* of T4 sounds, and the s950 not only lost all the S.Art 2 sounds from the T3, but actually stored the samples in *monaural* rather than stereo for all the new T2 and T3 sounds like Big Band Brass (shake). Don't believe me? go listen to "BigBandBrass" on s950, there's no separate trumpet shake on the left and right side; now try it on T3, T4, T5, G1, and you can you *hear* separate trumpets shaking, *not in phase*, in stereo. Why not G2? Because they accidentally applied a monaural eq to the same voice; the actual voice *is* in stereo, you just need to turn off the mono eq (why, Yamaha, why?)

Which is why I'm excited to see how many of the then new non-Sart2 sounds for G1 make it onto sx920 (Resonator Guitar? Kino Strings?) as well as how many drum kits arrive intact from G2 and how many kits arrive in live (non revo) form. I assume sx920 will have Revo kits, but they might still go down to a stripped down Live version.


Anyway, re: Ali Express? Do you really think someone can offer you a new sx900 for less than half the price of new? As correctly stated by BouncingGore: good luck getting any warranty/product support.

Mark

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Hi Mark
I wonder if these dodgy, no doubt faked lookalike SX900's are actually Medeli keyboards that AliExpress are desperately trying to offload to any mug who falls for it!

As you'll know, Yamaha successfully sued Medeli recently, so that's my guess.

Keith.
 

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