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frontpageiconian | Staff posted Jul 05, 2025 12:18 AM
Yamaha Arius YDP-184 88-Key Console Digital Piano with Bench
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with that said, it has about the best speaker system in its class for sure.
Yes, it does.
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with that said, it has about the best speaker system in its class for sure.
I bet $5 that you cannot tell which one is the newer version when two digital pianos are placed side-by-side.
At the same price point, the difference in key action/sound sampling/speaker quality between newer/older models is marginal.
The only exception is when they do something like rebadge the P45 as a P145 with minor changes, but that's the low end and this is the top end of the Arius line.
The only exception is when they do something like rebadge the P45 as a P145 with minor changes, but that's the low end and this is the top end of the Arius line.
I have owned many pianos (digital and acoustic) over the years, have been to piano showrooms many times and played with all the models. I yet need to be convinced that high-end models (within the same series) are worth the premium price or new models are much better than older ones. The base model is quite limited in terms of the features, but other than that it's mostly the same touch and sound synthesis systems. The key actions on Clavinova 600, 700 and 800 aren't that different especially if you ever spent over one hour on an acoustic piano.
Again, my claim is that you wouldn't pass a blind test of these different digital pianos. You can't tell which one is newer. They WILL sound/feel different, but unless something is objectively improved so that you can tell it, it's just different, not better.
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Even more, the resonance modeling has improved, and the Bosendorfer sample is even trickling down to Yamaha's lower end pianos.
So, yes I would know and you can pretend people wouldn't, but that's on you.
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