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Are they the future? Some sound terrible on account of their small power output, etc. But that need not be the case; indeed, it isn`t always. The specification level is high for their price.
There are comprehensive massive looking CVP Yamahas going for a song on ebay; nobody wants `em. . . the more I look at these compact pianos, the more I like them . . .
I might even bite . . . .
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can you post a pic of what type of piano do you mean?
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No they are a total waste of money like all console DP's. Your paying a lot of money for some crappy fake wood cabinet and $20 speakers.
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... like all console DP's. Your paying a lot of money for some crappy fake wood cabinet and $20 speakers.
...and yet there is a successful market for 'furniture' style DP's. Do you also classify these as consoles? Many people don't want an ugly slab, on an equally ugly stand, with equally ugly speakers in the living room. I know there are aesthetic exceptions, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but try convincing the (female) 'homemaker'.
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... like all console DP's. Your paying a lot of money for some crappy fake wood cabinet and $20 speakers.
...and yet there is a successful market for 'furniture' style DP's. Do you also classify these as consoles? Many people don't want an ugly slab, on an equally ugly stand, with equally ugly speakers in the living room. I know there are aesthetic exceptions, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but try convincing the (female) 'homemaker'. I'm lucky that I don't live with a 'homemaker' (female or otherwise  ), so I never have to bother with aesthetics. Even so, a black slab on a black stand is still something of a leap of faith for one used to 'real' pianos. But the thought of paying an extra £1000 (or whatever) for a cabinet full of empty air and speakers that I'll never be able to use is too much to bear.....
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Call me vain, but the form factor and aesthetics was an important factor in choosing my DP, as long as function wasn't compromised. My CA95 has great speakers that I don't feel the need for an additional monitor... and I can leave it out in the living room. If I had a slab with wires everywhere and connected to external speakers, I would have to leave it in my study and I'd feel like I had to run off to my room to hide every time I played.
Here in the living room, I can play for family and friends, and be the target of my crazy cat who likes to jump up on my lap and try to attack my hands every time I play.
That is worth the extra cost to me. Now if only the CS10 was available when I purchased this piano... *sigh*
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... like all console DP's. Your paying a lot of money for some crappy fake wood cabinet and $20 speakers.
...and yet there is a successful market for 'furniture' style DP's. Do you also classify these as consoles? Many people don't want an ugly slab, on an equally ugly stand, with equally ugly speakers in the living room. I know there are aesthetic exceptions, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but try convincing the (female) 'homemaker'. If you want a big lump of pretty wood buy a real piano ... console DP's (ie: Furniture style as you call them) are a complete rip off. you pay thousands extra for fake stuff and terrible speakers. I don't find keyboards ugly, or speakers ugly in fact some of the most beautiful things in the world to me are keyboards and I wouldn't marry anyone who did find them ugly.
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There's nothing wrong with getting a slim setup with a closing lid that fits in with the furniture. Not everyone wants a Nord planted in the middle of the living room on an X-stand with wires everywhere!
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People do want good looking furniture in their homes even if it is MDF veneered. I think they looked better years ago.
Damit, I cant get a picture to show . . .
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it looks pretty good to me ![[Linked Image]](http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/images/products/gallery/dp-990rf_room_2_gal.jpg)
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... console DP's (ie: Furniture style as you call them) are a complete rip off. you pay thousands extra for fake stuff and terrible speakers.
I don't find keyboards ugly, or speakers ugly in fact some of the most beautiful things in the world to me are keyboards and I wouldn't marry anyone who did find them ugly. Well I'm not here to defend consoles, but can you justify it with examples where the console version of a slab is thousands extra? In the UK the LX15 and CS9 were perhaps approaching that much more than their slab equivalent, but you pay for the 'design' of the cabinet and it's pretty good. I do agree that speakers and sound system could be better, but Kawai's introduction of a soundboard is interesting, and good speakers with a slab is difficult to get right, as shown by so many threads on this subject.
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Are mid-range console speakers that bad? Ex - speakers on Roland HP 503/505, Yamaha CLP 440/470, Kawai CN34/CN43 etc..
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My cn34 costs the same as a es7 with stand and pedals. So where is your point? And I wanted a piano that looks like as piano. Why can't some people in this forum accept that taste differs and looks sometimes matter.
And for real, a slab with a stand, lose pedal and even monitors in a living room looks awful.
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Are mid-range console speakers that bad? Ex - speakers on Roland HP 503/505, Yamaha CLP 440/470, Kawai CN34/CN43 etc.. No but they aren't worth the thousands extra
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But according to this thread, Simple things like music stand can make difference in the sound. So I believe console pianos will have their own ambiance compared to exact slab https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubb...Digital%20Grand%20stand.html#Post1759612 Well, kinda like a piano I guess;) The biggest difference I notice over playing with headphones on is the ambience that the cabinet brings to the sound. Listening with headphones on is akin to placing your head in the body of the piano a few inches above the strings. That is where the sound was recorded from but that is not the sound that we expect to hear when seated at the instrument. What we hear when playing a grand piano is significantly more complex than that. In my opinion to get a digital piano to sound more like a piano we really need to have either a second sample set that is recorded at the piano bench, model that location, or have a piano cabinet added to it;) In times past I never really noticed the change in a piano's sound when I moved the music rest forward two inches, but I sure notice it now. The difference between having the lid closed and on the first stick open is striking. I find myself opening and closing the lid not so much to tame the volume of the sound but rather to suit the mood that I feel when playing. I had no idea that I was going to get this when the project started. I am still modifying the equalization of the setup and probably will be for a few weeks yet. I find that the tonality of the sound changes so much as the different variables change. With the lid down the sound comes from the cabinet itself but more from bouncing off the floor. Flip over the top lid and the sound is now coming up from the top more. Seeing as how I can change the volume so easily it basically comes down to how I want the piano to sound when in that configuration. So before I do a youtube video I want to play with the eq a bit more until I am convinced that I have the sound I want. I don't know if I answered your question but I hope I made sense.
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But according to this thread, Simple things like music stand can make difference in the sound. So I believe console pianos will have their own ambiance compared to exact slab https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubb...Digital%20Grand%20stand.html#Post1759612[quote=knotty]How does it sound?
Well, kinda like a piano I guess;) The biggest difference I notice over playing with headphones on is the ambience that the cabinet brings to the sound. Listening with headphones on is akin to placing your head in the body of the piano a few inches above the strings. That is where the sound was recorded from but that is not the sound that we expect to hear when seated at the instrument. What we hear when playing a grand piano is significantly more complex than that. In my opinion to get a digital piano to sound more like a piano we really need to have either a second sample set that is recorded at the piano bench, model that location, or have a piano cabinet added to it;) In times past I never really noticed the change in a piano's sound when I moved the music rest forward two inches, but I sure notice it now. The difference between having the lid closed and on the first stick open is striking. I find myself opening and closing the lid not so much to tame the volume of the sound but rather to suit the mood that I feel when playing. I had no idea that I was going to get this when the project started. I am still modifying the equalization of the setup and probably will be for a few weeks yet. I find that the tonality of the sound changes so much as the different variables change. With the lid down the sound comes from the cabinet itself but more from bouncing off the floor. Flip over the top lid and the sound is now coming up from the top more. Seeing as how I can change the volume so easily it basically comes down to how I want the piano to sound when in that configuration. So before I do a youtube video I want to play with the eq a bit more until I am convinced that I have the sound I want. I don't know if I answered your question but I hope I made sense. [/ If you think moving a music rest makes a difference go ahead .... Sounds like bull$hit to me Sound is going to be different based on room and direction you will get the same effect bouncing a monitor speaker off the floor ceiling or opening or closing your lid in piano designer software. A few high end consoles put in nice sound (Kawai, Yamaha 480's etc) but its nothing you couldn't do far better with for 1/3 the cost by yourself. Your paying $2-3k extra for a look ... I'd think that was better spent on a acoustic or a semi console such as a ES7 or FP7F with the matching stands and pedal which look fine in a living room. I can't understand people paying for a look that's fake ... If you want the look get the real thing.
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"I can't understand people paying for a look that's fake ... If you want the look get the real thing." Some digitals look a treat and are designed to appeal strongly. Others try to emulate a funky grand, and miss it; but that`s only my opinion. But if ya buy a slab on Ebay - it may have had more than a little use! Take a look at this aged beauty http://www.muabanorgan.com/uploads/shop/pic/1306636695.nv.jpg
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