Charlie, I wonder if you're suffering a bit from "analysis paralysis"?
The WK-7600 is no less of a keyboard today than it was yesterday. Has what was fair become at once so foul?
It is blissfully unaware of the comings and goings of NAMM. It sits quietly in its box, waiting to feel the glorious fluorescent light of a home studio on its sturdy black plastic exterior.
The arrival of newer models have not diminished the fidelity of the WK-7600's 820 tones. Its 76 keys still await the pleasing contact of human fingers to coax it into full-throated 64-voice polyphonic bliss.
The only change is in the external environment: Newer models with amazing features, trumpeted from the parapets by those charged with marketing the latest and greatest upon the unsuspecting public. We hear these strident attestations and hark in wondrous awe:
"Acoustic and intelligent multi expression", "next generation sound source", "phase recorder with four pads", "re-designed chassis", "enhanced speaker systems".
Inevitably, we respond. We simply must. At first one by one, and then in groups of three, then four, then ten, now twenty until individuals cannot be distinguished from the masses. Our first tentative enquiries have now become a cacophonous stampede as we rush headlong to the newer models, eager for our first experience of their dynamic 15 watt speakers and 61 seductively ergonomic keys.
And soon, as the world completes yet another 24-hour revolution about its jauntily tilted axis, the masses are sated, as are Casio's shareholders.
That is, until the next models arrive...
And still, the tried, tested and proven WK-7600 waits patiently.
The WK-7600 is no less of a keyboard today than it was yesterday. Has what was fair become at once so foul?
It is blissfully unaware of the comings and goings of NAMM. It sits quietly in its box, waiting to feel the glorious fluorescent light of a home studio on its sturdy black plastic exterior.
The arrival of newer models have not diminished the fidelity of the WK-7600's 820 tones. Its 76 keys still await the pleasing contact of human fingers to coax it into full-throated 64-voice polyphonic bliss.
The only change is in the external environment: Newer models with amazing features, trumpeted from the parapets by those charged with marketing the latest and greatest upon the unsuspecting public. We hear these strident attestations and hark in wondrous awe:
"Acoustic and intelligent multi expression", "next generation sound source", "phase recorder with four pads", "re-designed chassis", "enhanced speaker systems".
Inevitably, we respond. We simply must. At first one by one, and then in groups of three, then four, then ten, now twenty until individuals cannot be distinguished from the masses. Our first tentative enquiries have now become a cacophonous stampede as we rush headlong to the newer models, eager for our first experience of their dynamic 15 watt speakers and 61 seductively ergonomic keys.
And soon, as the world completes yet another 24-hour revolution about its jauntily tilted axis, the masses are sated, as are Casio's shareholders.
That is, until the next models arrive...
And still, the tried, tested and proven WK-7600 waits patiently.
Wondering what you ended up with (CTX? WK?) and how it turned out. 