Notable, too, that Yamaha's "wooden key action" (NW and NWX) are probably not what you'd be expecting based on their marketing: they basically have the same engineering design of Yamaha's plastic key action (similar to other brand's plastic key actions, too), except instead of a hollow plastic key, it's just solid wood (with presumably different weighting at various stages of the action). Removed them from consideration pretty quickly. I've tried out pretty much everything current on the market, but I'll preface the following by noting that my opinions are those of a passionate but dedicated amateur (non-professional) primarily playing classical music for personal enjoyment.Ģ014 Yamaha Clavinova (CLP-5XX) line: Tried out most (525, 535, 545, 585) and liked the 545 and 585 well-enough, but price value-wise they are completely blown out by Kawai's offering.
I already know I like Pianoteq better than any onboard samples (and it's not even close, really as a conservative estimate, onboard DP sample sets are at least 10-15 years behind current high-end sampling standards, and while they're all acceptably playable, they just don't compare to Pianoteq for richness and resonances of tones), so I'm looking only for the physical actions.
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