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(More customer reviews)First off, I'm total novice when it comes to any kind of pianos (digital or acoustic). Take this review with a grain of salt. I bought this piano mainly due to my son starting piano lessons. I'm kind of tagging along with him ;-)
This is exactly the same instrument as DGX640W, just with wood accents on the side in different color. You may wish to check out reviews for the "other" model too. Not sure why Amazon lists it as two different items, instead of one item with two choices of color.
The keyboard part seems to be well made. It's sufficiently close to the real thing to fool my inexperienced hands that had a chance to really try only one real acoustic piano so far. The sound is reasonably close to a real piano. Maybe not as resonant as a real piano, but close enough for my not so good and not so experienced ears. I'm mostly using it with piano voice, and only quickly checked on other voices. If you are into that sort of thing, there's plenty to play with. The speakers are a bit weak. I've read people complaining about volume on many models of Yamaha digital pianos, and this one could be a bit louder too. Even with volume turned to the max, I don't think it matches the volume of a real piano. However, with good headphones (tried it with Sennheiser HD555 and AKG k702) it sounds much better and much louder.
The instrument is relatively heavy, and I would not classify it as too portable. While it's perfectly possible for one person to lift it, I would suggest you have somebody on hand to help you when putting it onto the included stand.
My main disappointment (and a reason for a low rating) is with things around the keyboard itself. The keyboard feels to be of a good build quality and has a nice feel to it. Which is what is most important. However the rest of the unit has just a bit too much of a plastic feeling to it for my taste. Being silver in color not really helping there. Other then aesthetics, Yamaha could work a bit on a quality control too. Some of the buttons and the wheel are not perfectly aligned with the openings in the top plastic panel. For example, the data entry wheel on the one I got is scratching on one side against the panel around it. Result is almost no resistance for half of a turn of the wheel (the way I believe it should be), and hard to turn (lot of resistance) for another half of the turn. I expected better build quality of something that costs $800. The pitch band wheel on the side looks and feels a bit too plastic as well.
Headphone output is hidden very inaccessibly at the back of the unit!? In my opinion, the logical place for headphone jack would be front of the unit. You'll have to lean over the unit and hunt for it every time you want to connect headphones. While the unit is relatively big and bulky, Yamaha decided to use external brick for powering it. I'm sure there is plenty of spare space inside the unit itself not to need an external transformer (brick).
All in all, I wish Yamaha payed a bit more attention to these details when designing and manufacturing this unit.
The included stand is made of particle board. However, it feels sturdy enough. I also bought the LP7A optional 3-pedal system, and it installs without a glitch onto the stand.
I also tried few Kawai digital pianos in a local store before settling for this unit made by Yamaha, and they seemed a bit better built. Considering that very basic entry-level Kawai costs over $1000 (without a stand), this unit isn't a bad buy, as it offers much more features than entry-level Kawai pianos. However, I'm still left with a bit of buyers remorse if I should have spent a bit more and bought Kawai instead.
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Yamaha's most piano-like Portable Grand ever. It has weighted Graded Hammer Standard action with matte finish black keysand a wide selection of Voices.Selecting a sound is as easy as keying in a number, and recording performances is simple with the built-in recorder.
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