| Product Description: | Casio Privia PX-870 Family of Digital Pianos
Casio PX-870 Digital Piano
The PX-870’s award-winning AiR Sound Source includes a new four-layer stereo grand piano which comes alive with realistic damper resonance, simulating the entire body of the instrument, not just the strings. The piano also includes key action sounds, key off simulation, adjustable hammer response, and a lid simulator with four positions. The PX-870 also includes string resonance, which exposes the sympathetic harmonic relationships between vibrating strings. Along with adding to the subtle beauty of the sound, this adds authenticity when playing works by Debussy, Ravel, and other composers who wrote with string resonance in mind.
The PX-870 features a variety of 19 instrument Tones, with the ability to layer and split them as needed. With a generous 256 notes of polyphony, you can rest assured that even the most complex performances will sound perfectly natural.
Unique Headphone Mode
The PX-870’s convenient features are useful at home, in a lesson studio, or anywhere else. You can connect two sets of headphones using the ¼” jacks on the front panel, making the PX-870 ideal for quiet practice. A unique Headphone Mode optimizes the PX-870’s sound for headphone use. Duet Mode splits the piano into two equal pitch ranges, allowing a student and teacher to sit at the same instrument.
The PX-870 connects via class-compliant USB to any PC, Mac, iOS, or Android device, with no drivers or installations needed.
Tri-Sensor II Scaled Hammer Action Piano Keys
The acclaimed Tri-Sensor II Scaled Hammer Action piano keys give you the expression your performance deserves. The simulated ebony and ivory textures give you an authentic and comfortable touch, combined with an innovative hammer action that is accurately scaled across the entire key range. Adjustable touch sensitivity and hammer response allow customization to suit any playing style.
Built-in Music Library
60 songs are included in the built-in Music Library, with room for ten additional songs of you |
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You won't likely get anything comparable to this priced at 300-500. Some people would suggest a Roland FP10, but I don't recommend Roland for children as their action can be fatiguing for small hands. The Yamahas in that price range are fine (P45/71) but outdated and very bare in features. I would not waste money on a lesser or no-name brand as a starter piano.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxhqYbi
Keep in mind that this model is 3-4 years old.
You won't likely get anything comparable to this priced at 300-500. Some people would suggest a Roland FP10, but I don't recommend Roland for children as their action can be fatiguing for small hands. The Yamahas in that price range are fine (P45/71) but outdated and very bare in features. I would not waste money on a lesser or no-name brand as a starter piano.
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For a beginner piano (especially for children), something like the Yamaha EZ300 keyboard makes some sense. For actual pianos, you want either Kawai ES120 or the Roland FP10 or FP30X. The Roland FP10 was recently on sale on Adorama and the Costco variant is available in a bundle there. The Kawai pianos frequently go on sale at Adorama. These digital pianos have the best authentic feel, seems to be the consensus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxhqYbi
Keep in mind that this model is 3-4 years old.
I watched probably hours of Stu (probably my favorite video reviews), and ALL the others...from music shops (like Stu) to self-proclaimed experts. Every single Youtube video review I came across was ultimately a subtle advertisement and very much biased to not say anything negative, because all these people are being paid. All of them. Or like Stu, work for a music store that has relationships with these brands.
If you actually want to know what the negatives are for model X digital piano, you have to go to the piano user forums (PianoWorld I think is one, and there is another one more inclined to digitals and synths, can't remember name, but they are almost hilariously "competitive" with each other LOL).
If someone can name a Youtube review where they actually discuss negatives in detail, please let me know! Even the AZ review site posted above made the ludicrous comment something to the effect of "we go into the negatives as well, IF THERE IS ONE" (hint: they don't, not in a meaningful way for a critical buyer at least, also hint: EVERYthing has negatives, but all these commission paid sites and reviewers dare not bite the hand that feeds them - which is understandable, but frustrating for a buyer trying to make informed decisions).
I watched probably hours of Stu (probably my favorite video reviews), and ALL the others...from music shops (like Stu) to self-proclaimed experts. Every single Youtube video review I came across was ultimately a subtle advertisement and very much biased to not say anything negative, because all these people are being paid. All of them. Or like Stu, work for a music store that has relationships with these brands.
If you actually want to know what the negatives are for model X digital piano, you have to go to the piano user forums (PianoWorld I think is one, and there is another one more inclined to digitals and synths, can't remember name, but they are almost hilariously "competitive" with each other LOL).
If someone can name a Youtube review where they actually discuss negatives in detail, please let me know! Even the AZ review site posted above made the ludicrous comment something to the effect of "we go into the negatives as well, IF THERE IS ONE" (hint: they don't, not in a meaningful way for a critical buyer at least, also hint: EVERYthing has negatives, but all these commission paid sites and reviewers dare not bite the hand that feeds them - which is understandable, but frustrating for a buyer trying to make informed decisions).
I watched probably hours of Stu (probably my favorite video reviews), and ALL the others...from music shops (like Stu) to self-proclaimed experts. Every single Youtube video review I came across was ultimately a subtle advertisement and very much biased to not say anything negative, because all these people are being paid. All of them. Or like Stu, work for a music store that has relationships with these brands.
If you actually want to know what the negatives are for model X digital piano, you have to go to the piano user forums (PianoWorld I think is one, and there is another one more inclined to digitals and synths, can't remember name, but they are almost hilariously "competitive" with each other LOL).
If someone can name a Youtube review where they actually discuss negatives in detail, please let me know! Even the AZ review site posted above made the ludicrous comment something to the effect of "we go into the negatives as well, IF THERE IS ONE" (hint: they don't, not in a meaningful way for a critical buyer at least, also hint: EVERYthing has negatives, but all these commission paid sites and reviewers dare not bite the hand that feeds them - which is understandable, but frustrating for a buyer trying to make informed decisions).
Stu Harrison gives some of the best reviews out there, but obviously he has a bias toward the products Merriam offers. He won't really come right out and say much of anything negative either way. But I think you can still see it when he really doesn't like something about an instrument, even when it's one of their own. It also comes across well that he works with real customers every day rather than just producing content for an audience, he's very tactful and mild mannered.
People who shell out their own hard earned money to buy a product, and then put a review up for it or complain about it on forums have a certain kind of bias too. Same as what people do here on Slickdeals. But some of those negative criticisms on Pianoworld are coming from people with much bigger wallets than I have, so there's that too.
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If you really want to hear just a fantastic comparison of two DP's, search out his video comparing the Roland FP-90X with the Kawai ES-920. I don't think anyone could do a better job than that...it's really great...no BS, no marketing speak at all...JUST sound, and what HE is hearing in terms of the differences. Hell, I think my sound IQ went up just listening to that comparo because of the way he expresses himself.
But to answer your question (this is long, sorry, if I could figure out how to use spoiler tags here to compress it, I would!):
I spent $4,500 IIRC on my Roland DP in the late 90's (around $8,500 in today dollars). Today, I don't have even the 90's dollars available in my budget to replace it, so I am looking around the $1,500 -$2,500 range, tops. But my needs/wants are probably different than yours: I was originally trying to find an arranger DP that ALSO has top class (in my budget) piano feel and sound. Unfortunately while such beasts exist, they are pretty far above my current budget. I narrowed down my choices to the Kawai ES 920, which for around $2K with console and pedals, apparently has the best grand piano sound out there in that range, and even punches well above it's price class considering the sound.
The other one is the Roland FP-90X. Two completely different approaches to creating digital pianos, with Kawai I think pursuing the more "we're trying to emulate an acoustic grand as closely as possible using samples" and Roland using modeled sound instead of samples, and trying to make the best digital piano instrument they can. Apparently both are great, but almost opposite approaches.
Because I do love and use non-piano sounds, I am leaning hard towards the Roland, primarily because I read in a few places that the Kawai's non-piano sounds are mediocre compared to others in its class. If I were solely or mostly interested in piano sounds only, it would be the Kawai, no question.