Oef!
Dacht ik klaar te zijn - ik heb nog niet besteld, nog even geluidskaart/koptelefoon uitzoeken - komt DIno Jay met de Kawai MP 8 II...
Er staan heel aardige - en naar ik meen, onafhankelijke - recensies in keyboardmag.com. Ik wil jullie de conclusie van deze recencies niet onthouden:
De Roland RD-300SX is het oudst (April 2005):
http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/roland-rd-700sx/Apr-05/7566
Anyone shopping for a stage piano has a lot of options to choose from.
If your needs are simple, you may be better off saving significant money
by choosing a less expensive, less deluxe model like Roland’s own
RD-300SX, Yamaha’s P250 or P80, Korg’s SP-500, or the upcoming M-Audio
piece. None of them offer MIDI controller features to the degree that
the 700SX does, but you may like their actions and piano sounds.
If what you need is something that can do double-duty as your
piano/primary keyboard onstage and MIDI controller at home, the 700SX
starts to emerge as a more attractive choice.
If you want the Cristal of stage pianos, though, you might agree this is
it. If you can spend around $2,000 for an instrument of this type, you’d
better audition this one before you choose.
Dan volgt de Kawai-MP8 (Januari 2006):
http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/kawai-mp8/Jan-06/17512
When you go shopping for a top-of-the-line digital stage piano, you’d
better add the MP8 to your list. It comes pretty darn close to the
front-runner Yamaha P-250 in piano authenticity and feel. It challenges
the Roland RD-700SX in fun-to-play pop keyboard ergonomics. And it
raises the bar in its assortment of easily accessed brass, wind, string,
and pad sounds.
What it lacks in editing firepower, it makes up for in a simple, elegant
design approach. While in my opinion it’s not unmatched — as Kawai
claims — in replicating a grand piano’s sound and feel, it’s close
enough for jazz. Or pretty much anything else.
En uiteindelijk de Yamaha CP300 (Oktober 2006):
http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/yamaha-cp300/Oct-06/23624
This is a deadly-serious instrument. Playing it is also serious fun —
I’ve always seen finger-to-music connection as paramount when it comes
to forgetting your piano is digital, and the CP300’s is top-drawer. The
only other hardware stage piano with this kind of gravitas is the Kawai
MP-8 (reviewed Feb. ’06), and I dare say that while the Kawai’s wooden
keys give it the edge for realistic feel,
the CP leapfrogs ahead for
overall sound quality.
Compared to the previous generation’s highest echelons, such as the
Kawai MP-9500, Yamaha P250, or anything else, the sonic difference is
more than enough to justify real consideration of upgrading.
The CP300
is poised to become the new gold standard for those who demand the most
pianistic realism you can get onstage without Elton John’s roadies, and
are committed enough to this pursuit that a little more weight and
expense than the median is no big deal. Come to think of it, that was
entirely true of the CP electric grands in their day. Those letters fit
like a glove.
Keyboardmag.com staaft de mening van velen die op mijn vraag gereageerd hebben.
En nou alsjeblieft geen merken meer - wie weet maakt Casio wel de allerbeste digitale piano - want ik denk niet dat mijn eigen persoonlijke muziekkwaliteiten echt zoveel research rechtvaardigen.
Maar toch bedankt voor je input, DIno Jay!