What exactly is the deal with Yamaha P-140?

[smoothas]

Hey,

   can anyone help shed some light on the P140's "improvements" over the discontinued P120? I know the amplifier has been downsized and some of the I/O's slashed, but they can't just make it inferior and call it an upgrade can they? Are the piano sounds new at least? The action?

I played the 140 in the store yesterday and liked it but I need a good reason to shell out the extra cash in stead of going with a "barely used" 120.

Any help greatly appreciated since none of the sales reps over here seem to have a clue.

[chris_quinn]

I can;t answer your question but music123 has "b" stock 120s for a good price:

https://www.music123.com/Yamaha-P120-i93989.music

[leahcim]

Hey,

   can anyone help shed some light on the P140's "improvements" over the discontinued P120? I know the amplifier has been downsized and some of the I/O's slashed, but they can't just make it inferior and call it an upgrade can they? Are the piano sounds new at least? The action?

I thought it was awful at musiclive, but then I'd just walked away from a bunch of real acoustics and obviously they weren't using expensive headphones.

I'll be cynical here and suggest that Yamaha have no need to improve [they've got most of the gig anyway] and so they haven't.

If they improved then imo the new stage models would have (a) The 4 layer sample and (b) The GH3 keyboard that the new CLP models have. Neither of which are particulary knicker-wetting improvements to those either but at least they are improvements.

In short, if you liked the idea of the p120 or older clp models I can't see any reason not to get one, certainly not any reason in the shape of a new yamaha product, not yet anyway.