i am the proud new owner of a yamaha 90es. i'm currently running it thru a mono speaker (fender kxr 60) but am hoping to upgrade soon. any suggestions that won't cause me to have to take out a second mortgage on my home?

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i also have the s90es i am currently using the m audio bx5 and they do good for my taste, but i also tryed to plug a subwoofer that belong to my home theater and it took the bass sounds to a higher level.
hope this help you, you can find those maudio bx5 for about 250 to 300, but if you want to spend more you can go for the bx10, they are bigger but if you do what i do to plug them in your studio the bx5 is enough.
check out a pair of yamaha self powered monitor speakers, one for left, one for right. i have a couple of 101's that i think are a bit too weak for anything but a solo gig, but they sound great.  a friend of mine bought some other ones by yamaha, but i don't know the numbers on them. they are a little bigger than my 101's and sound even better, and you can do a trio gig with them.

if you don't mind spending another grand and also don't mind hauling more equipment around, my favorite setup is to bring two self powered mackie (600's i think?) pa speakers.  put them down on the ground with their speakers facing me, and put my keyboard on top. it's the perfect height and i have the sound i've always wanted- coming out of the piano, not behind me or in front of me.  that setup seems to work for all situations, and if i'm in a room where they have their own sound, i still use them as my personal monitors.
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well, dumb ol me lost the url for this site so i just now found these 2 replies to  my original message. thank you. i was trying to avoid having to lug 2 big macke's around since the 90es is not light, but i do need something for gigging not just studio work. any alternatives to the mackes, which is what my local music equipment store is also pushing?
those yamaha 101s are pretty good monitors.  just enough for a solo or quiet trio gig, but very nice for home studio stuff and come in around $100 a piece.

however i do love the mackie 450s that i have.  just last month i realized that if i set them up just right, remove two of the feet from the s90es, the keyboard sits perfectly on top of the two mackie monitors.  

i have the monitors facing me and the sound is amazing- the piano sound is coming from just the right area, everything is right there, and my audience can hear it on gigs.
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