The world in which we currently live has become mad, crazy and you cannot say openly the truth if the current “mind police” largely influenced strongly by the media and formed by a very vocal minority that does not want to accept eternal truths that will never change or simply accept true facts!! Roland has its top speakers in the … As an improvement to the CLP-685, the Yamaha Clavinova CLP … Yamaha Clavinova CLP-600 series Overview video. Historically, in general, this second rule does not work for the simple reason that customers expect you, the makers of digital pianos, to provide more in features and more in quality for less in price!! 2) For the price of a SINGLE ROLAND HP605, I COULD “NEARLY” BUY TWO YAMAHA CLAVINOVA CLP535, AS I WOULD HAVE TO ADD ONLY £125 ($176) TO BE EXACT TO THE PRICE OF A SINGLE ROLAND HP605!! The Yamaha Clavinova CLP digital pianos have been the best digital pianos in the market on a price per quality basis for decades for many years! The latest Yamaha Clavinova CLP digital pianos (CLP-585, CLP-575, CLP-545, CLP-535, CLP-525). Statistically speaking, Roland knows that, after the usual five years of warranty that is provided by their competitors, the number of Roland pianos that are likely to need repair from the 6th year up to and included the 10th year is so low that it does not hurt at all financially the slightest Roland to provide a ten-year warranty instead of a five-year warranty!! RIPPING-OFF” OF THEIR BLIND, GULLIBLE AND IRRATIONAL CUSTOMERS!! And it is symptomatic of the Yamaha Clavinova CLP 600 series (and the previous series before this current 600 series). Again, the answer is a resounding no! In the UK, there are several makers of digital pianos that sell digital pianos and therefore you would think that there is strong competition, yet each of them acts like it is a monopoly of its own through their respective network of sellers, retailers!! Don't order anywhere until you check with us 1st! The makers of digital pianos currently act with complete impunity, above the law, trampling at will on the law and, at the same time, keeping ripping off their blind and powerless customers!! 2) CENSORSHIP DONE ON “UK PIANOS” PIANO FORUMS!! Now where to check the latest prices on your next digital piano, whichever one you would like to buy? The Roland equivalent is the Roland LX-7. It is just a few years old and sampled piano technology has been around for several decades during which it has been improved many times and, according to my practical experience playing extensively both the Yamaha and the Roland digital pianos, sampled piano sound technology has now been refined to the point that: 1) Sampled piano sound technology sounds much more realistic than modeled piano sound technology on a digital piano! Yamaha Clavinova CLP-545 digital piano at £1,649 on 01.04.2016.jpg, 238 KB, With your mouse, right-click the following link, select “Open Link in New Tab” and click on the picture to increase its size at https://outrageouspricesofrolanddigitalpianos.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/comparison-small-size-yamaha-clavinova-clp-545-digital-piano-at-c2a31649-on-01-04-2016.jpg, —Comparison (small size). The finest GrandTouch keyboard and sound system … They strongly want to keep ripping off their blind, gullible and irrational customers as long as possible through marketing traps!! In a summary, for instance taking the Yamaha Clavinova CLP-545, you get the following main features: The latest Roland digital pianos (HP603, HP605, LX-7, LX-17). I wanted to keep it very short so that you could read these comments quickly and really have a thorough understanding of why modeled piano sound technology is simply not ready for prime time at this particular point in time and why it simply cannot match several decades with many refinements that went through sampled piano sound technology! But you also have to understand that the same applies to the other main makers of digital pianos such as Yamaha, Kawai, and Casio for instance. Will you be reviewing the Kauai CA99 soon? Simply because the sampled piano sound technology has improved so much that most pianists are not be able to discern its weaknesses due to the fact that the quality of the samples provided is such that it becomes very hard for a pianist to discern easily the weaknesses of the sampled piano sound technology. The overall lineup received both the 2019 iF Design Award and Red Dot Product Design Award 2019, while the flagship LX708 … That is indeed a “killer” feature but this time very literally!! Considering the fact that most people buy a digital piano especially to play the piano silently through their headphones, this feature is very important. At the same time, Yamaha was decreasing the prices for a few of their products!! I would be interested in where the new Nord Grand ranks, too. —The price I could get the Yamaha Clavinova CLP535 was at £1032 ($1457). Yamaha Clavinova CLP-525 digital piano at £979 on 01.04.2016.jpg, 629 KB, With your mouse, right-click the following link, select “Open link in new tab” and click on the picture to increase its size at https://outrageouspricesofrolanddigitalpianos.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/comparison-small-size-yamaha-clavinova-clp-525-digital-piano-at-c2a3979-on-01-04-2016.jpg, —Comparison (small size). But evil shall be defeated for good until it shows its ugly head once more!! If you choose, for any maker of digital pianos, the top of the line series of digital pianos and then pick one of the digital pianos from this top of the line series, you will have an amazing digital piano. There you have it, with these simple and yet very important two points, you have the harsh truth and reality of the modeled piano sound technology, it is simply way too young to match the several decades and many refinements that sampled piano sound technology has gone through!! 4) Should I carry on the comparison using the top of the line the Yamaha CLP585 compared to the top of the line the Roland LX17? Frank, the stupid owner of the http://www.pianoworld.com piano forums, said the following to justify censoring my posts simply because I dared stating extracts from this blog by stating verbatim extracts of the conclusion and of the noisy keys sections: “Your post were incendiary and malicious. Currently, the sampled piano sound seems to give a more realistic piano sound than the modeled piano sound. The same applies to the selling of digital pianos, THERE IS ZERO COMPETITION AND THE PRICES ARE RIGGED, FIXED ILLEGALLY BY THE PIANO MANUFACTURERS TO THEIR NETWORK OF RETAILERS. And by the way, this isn’t really a public forum, it’s mine, I own it. Its GrandTouch keyboard with synthetic ivory/ebony keytops and escapement and 88-key Linear Graded Hammer action … LOWER PRICES than Amazon and internet music stores! The sellers of Roland digital pianos (HP603, HP605, LX-7, LX-17) earn basically double the profit they earn selling Yamaha digital pianos. PRIVATE FACTORY SALE with Big Discount Price on a new 32" deep Samick SG120 Digital Micro Grand Piano in POLISHED Finishes! For this reason alone, you simply should NOTt buy a Yamaha Clavinova CLP 600 series digital pianos unless you could afford the most expensive and top of the range of the CLP 600 series, the CLP-685!! Therefore, I have started these past months the time-consuming research work of informing myself more about the latest current digital pianos available to see which ones could be the best ones at the fairest prices possible. The sellers of Roland digital pianos (HP603, HP605, LX-7, LX-17) earn basically double the profit they earn selling Yamaha digital pianos. But before discussing price, let me mention a very important point. You usually get several piano sounds, usually each at a different level of quality. You just helped me make an educated recommendation for a friend. Steinway. The majority of the professional pianists who have played the Yamaha Clavinova CLP digital pianos do not notice an improvement when playing the Roland digital pianos. The Yamaha CLP-745 and CLP-775 Clavinovas represent the two middle models in the new 700 series. You were here as my guest, and I can assure you I would not allow a guest in my home to act the way you did.”. The price I could get the Roland HP603 was at £1549 ($2187). TOP 3 BEST DIGITAL PIANOS IN EACH PRICE RANGE! Second, they use the sampled piano sound technology that has been refined for several decades that it is now a very mature technology. This is a true fact!!