SPX2 
by Buzz Haze from Ottawa, Canada, March 2008
Music Background:  Composer

Love the feel of the keys. The piano sounds are excellent. Electric pianos are pretty good too although you can tell they didn't spend as much time on them as they did on the piano sounds. The guitars are a grand waste of time. They should have put somthing different in, like flutes & choir, mind you the bass sounds are pretty good. The strings are lush and sweet.

The touch and playability of the unit far surpasses the price point. It's got "big bang for the buck" and I love it.

  Better than Roland.... 
by Fred Flowerday from MN, September 2007
Music Background:  Pro Musician, and Music Production Engineer for MakeMusic inc.

Wanted to get a low weight 88 key for the gigs that needed a 2nd tier- Ended up with a Roland RD300sx- Very disappointed. It developed a clack in the keys after two weeks. Along with having a really sub-standard sound set- it went right back. Never, never buy one.
So, ordered an SP2x. Much more impressed. The action is hugely better over the roland (maybe it's not a fair comparison, as the RD300sx was a total pile), but it's fluid, and responsive. The soundset is also superior. The Pianos are clear, carefully stereo imaged, and sound very good mono through an amp. Maybe the most playable piano outside of a plug in that I have heard. The only criticism here is that the pp and ppp doesn't quite feel as it should- like the sample 'floor' is too shallow floor for my tastes. It could use at least one more velocity sample layer. My other reservation (and this goes for most of the weighted boards I have owned and tried), are the EP sounds. they are the 2nd weakest part of the instrument. The Rhodes on the Kurzweil patch mimics a 'Shallow' escapement, and lacks 'fatness'. The most versatile and widely usable setup on a Real Rhodes is usually 'ideal, close'; meaty and funky. If a company is going to go to all the trouble to make a clear and believable, sampled acoustic piano like Kurzweil has done here, why not apply that paradigm to the Rhodes sound? It is equally important on most gigs, and with folks like Clavia, and plug-ins like Velvet setting the bar very high, it feels like a bad decision not to put the same resources to this part of the sound set. The other, other, and weakest part of the Kurzweil (and anything else but a dedicated clone wheel organ) are the Organ Patches. They are are all but useless, and bear little or no resemblence to anything you would ever use.
The drums are nice and useable, clear and varied! Could use a couple more kicks.
Basses are OK etc. The OS is functional and relitavley clear.
Overall, you can't beat the price for what you get. It's no Nord Stage, but then again, its $2000 less...

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