Lowrey prestige vs wersi nova

[steverose]

Okay so you are at a birthday party and they are handing out cake and ice cream, but you have a choice of two ice creams, and no mixed orders. On the right the Lowrey Prestige, on the left a Wersi Nova. Which would you choose and why? And begin.....

[seamaster]

The Wersi's basically a Spectra in a trad cabinet. Good organ, if it works. Sounding dated now, though.

The Lowrey's much newer with a bigger sound. I'm not much of a Lowrey fan, but it would be my choice between these two.

[abacus]

The Nova came out almost 30 years ago, plus they were available to build from a kit, which if they were built with care (Or at the factory) will carry on for ages with minimal maintenance, (Keep the key contacts clean, push the chips firmly in their sockets, and change the batteries occasionally) plus there are still internal add-ons (Livestyle sound and Golden Gate accompaniment for example which effectively adds a Performer model to the Nova) to improve it further. (It also has a decent Midi spec to add on Midi Modules.

The Prestige is newer and is much easier to play, having plenty of pre-sets available as well as a song book on board.

Assuming both are working correctly, the question boils down to whether you want easy to play (And are not interested in adding new features) or more expandability to do what you want.

For me it would be the Nova, as I hate being dictated to by the manufacture as to what I can and cannot have on an instrument. (If it can’t be easily expanded (Either on-board or external) then I am not interested)

Hope this helps

Bill