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The PX330 is $699 where as the PX350 is priced at $799 at retailers.

The PX-3 is currently Casio's most expensive stage piano. It is concievable they would put all or most of the improvements on this once they revamp it

where are you seeing $799 for the 350? i don't see it anywhere online and i find that price - since its not even released yet - very hard to believe. the 330 at $669- yes, its in clearance mode and you can order it at several different places.

If the 350 is already out there at $799 Casio has serious credibility issues with their pricing.

The PX-350 is $100 more than the PX-330. So yes, the PX-350 will sold for $799 here in the US.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for clarifying the price for the new PX-350.

When will the new Celvianos (especially the AP-650) be available in the US?

Cheers,

Kevin

well, i stand corrected. that's a better deal than i anticipated!

Mike, any UK date or price on the PX-350?

I noticed the XW-P1 was roughly the same price in pounds sterling as it was in dollars (499).

...in the US..., as always we are busted in Europe and elsewhere . I remember being interested when then px3 came out , until I discoverd it was selling for around 700 dollars in the US and € 1200 (euro's !) or more in Europe. That was when I lost appetite for the Casio...

why is that? VAT ? distribution? duties on electronics?....really a huge difference....

See www.casio-europe.com/euro/news/detail/93C about the new models. Of course it is marketing talk, but it looks promising. Very curious how the new keybed will feel. No mention when they will be available in Europe.

I think his link was supposed to be:
http://www.casio-europe.com/euro/news/detail/930

This link comes up as "NOT FOUND"....

K.

Thanks for posting the correct link!

Cheers,

K.

wow, the PX850 sounds perfect. is that too sophisticated for the US mass market?

EDIT: scratch this thought, looks like the 850 is a cabinet style DP. i had hoped it would be a portable board..... 37kg is pretty stout!

And only 18 sounds. To get the 250 sounds back (a la PX330), you gotta step up to the AP-650, which is even bigger yet. Apparently sound samples are heavy!!!

Does anyone know if the key action of the upcoming PX150 is new or is something copied from an existing Casio piano? I'm trying to decide if I should wait for the PX150 but only if its key action is better than comparable Yamaha pianos. If the key action is the same with an existing Casio piano, then I can go find that model and get a feel of it. Yamaha labels their key action feel with GHS, GH, and etc so it's easy to tell how it will feel, even for a model that is not released yet. But Casio doesn't seem to have a similar standard.

My daughter's piano school sells only Yamaha and so I've only been able to play with those and I definitely feel the GH keys are a closer feel to an acoustic Yamaha piano than the GHS keys. Would it be too much to hope to expect the Casio PX150 to have GH-equivalent feeling keys?

It will be a new action, not like any current Casios.

That's a question we're all wondering about. Casio hasn[t released any technical info on their action other than to say it is improved over what they are currently selling. It looks like all their keybeds come with ivory textured keys. That is all that can be said for sure. As to what it feels like, that is anyone's guess until they actually start shipping and can be played.

I just found this article about these new Privias and Celviano, it's in Japanese, but the pictures look nice. http://www.miroc.co.jp/magazine/archives/18551

By the way, does anybody know how much the AP-650m and the AP-450 will be?

And another thing i'd like to know. Would there be a big difference between the AP-650M speakers (16 cm X 2 and 2.5 cm X 2 with 2 - 30 Watts amplifiers) and the AP-450 ones ??( 12 cm X 2 and 2.5 cm X 2 with 2 - 20 Watts amplifiers)

Gosh , they are ugly , looking like rhythm electric organs from the 70s and 80s . Only the 650 in polished ebony and the px-350 look better. Still not the style award winners, but acceptable. The other cabinets ....I just don't know. Cheap doesn't always have to mean ugly in my opinion.

As for the graphs - they looked interesting ; there seems to be a lot going on in the new processing. Of course I don't understand a word from what's written, so it's just guessing .

Biggest question remains: how good are new keybed and sound in practice (need user reports) , when will they hit the shop and at what (local) price. Counting off...