From organbarry@gmail.com Sat Dec 10 06:13:13 2016
Subject:XK-5 warnings...!

My XK-5 showed up - gorgeous instrument, incredible sounding, with a Leslie
sim that's uncannily realistic - but it had a problem with notes frequently
getting stuck on - hitting the panic buttons usually took care of it, but
in a performance setting it would be a disaster. It also crashed a number
of times while editing and had to be restarted. The good folks at
Sweetwater sent me a replacement - it crashed while editing like the other
one, and while playing parts of the display would flash on and off making a
nice light show but freezing up the organ. The 2nd one also had a myriad
of very fine scratches on the wood top - hardly noticeable but something
you shouldn't see on a $3700 instrument (or a $200 instrument for that
matter). The XK5 has the potential to be an incredible instrument, but if
you get one, make sure you can return it just in case something is wrong
with it. You'd think the folks at HS would take more pride in their
work...