I am currently trying to decide on whether to pick the Kurzweil PC2X or PC1X. The Kurzweil I believe has the sounds I am looking for. I tend to do a lot of strings and horns in addition to piano & bass. (Donald Fagen aka Steely Dan is a favorite). My styles run from jazz to gospel to piano rock. I currently play a Korg M1, grand piano and a Hammond spinet at church, although at this point I do not personally own a keyboard other than the Kawai 'professional upright' that sits in the living room. I cut my teeth on Fender Rhodes Pianos, the Melotron, Hammonds with Leslies, Moogs and more back in the late 70's and early 80's.

It does make me very leery about buying another Kurzweil though.Hi, I'm new to this forum but old to keyboards. I'm just going to ride it until it drops, it's been a great gigging keyboard (other than 'the incident') and it makes a great controller for my home studio. Unfortunately I can't really sell it like this-I'd have to take a huge loss since I'd disclose these things-and I expect the repair cost (as you found) would be the worth of the keyboard (I paid 875 used about 4 years ago). Nevertheless, it did make me wonder if the power at the place had something to do with the problem. Normally I use our bass players Furman rack, which is just one of the <$100 deals and not one of the fancy ones. At that gig, I plugged directly into stage power, they had outlets all over the place. Ever since, it has booted fine, though the screen flicker is still there. Might or might not be related, but I had the thing not boot during a gig and it refused to do so (loading into various error and garbled screens) until I went into their 'safe mode' (or whatever it is called) and initiated a boot. His general thought was that 'the screens on Kurzweils eventually all go bad and need replacing'. I had a guy check it, he's just someone I know that has owned and worked on a number of Kurzweils over the years, and he couldn't find anything wrong that he could fix (like a loose connection etc). Mine will 'flicker' and once in a while stay dark, but fortunately a tap or two on it will make it come back. Guessing my pc3 has a similar issue, though all the buttons work I think. If anything else goes out on it, I would be likely to either sell as-is or part it out (or keep parts for my other two). My PC3 (also have 361 and X) lost all analog audio a couple of years ago, After failing to component level troubleshoot, and figuring the cost of replacing the two boards that are likely suspects, I've been using it at church (since I don't have to move it often) with the SPDIF Digital Audio connected to a small external DAC. There are some IC power regulators on a couple of the boards, would have to be traced out with schematics to find out if the above is even likely.ДЄt least more promise than if just display went out - the original display module is no longer available, and the replacement kit (I understand from posts) is rather expensive, enough to make it questionable whether worth repair.ДЄ good tech with access to Kurzweil's service information needs to look at it to really be able to diagnose. With lights not working also, possibly one of the voltages that feeds both the display and button lights.

Replacement screen for kurzweil pc2x