Speakers for digital piano

[mosilver]

Hi,

I am a college student who recently purchased a Yamaha P90 weighted hammer digital keyboard.  The keyboard does not come with any internal speakers. I only use the keyboard in my home.

Does anyone know of a small audio/cd/radio unit that I could hook the keyboard up to, that also has a recording function? 

Alternativealy, Does anyone know of a small set of speakers that sounds good?

[quantum]

You could hook it up to your computer speakers if you get the right adapters. 

If you get 1/4" to RCA you could probably hook it up to a stereo receiver.  If the keyboard has RCA out you don't need the adapter.  From there just hook up a tape deck or whatever to record. 

Alternatively you could get a keyboard amp, which you can cary to gigs with you.  This will probably use 1/4" to 1/4". 

You could also plug into your computer sound card, which probably has 1/8" connectors.  From there you can download Audacity, and record on your computer. 

https://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[clef]

Hi,

I am a college student who recently purchased a Yamaha P90 weighted hammer digital keyboard.  The keyboard does not come with any internal speakers. I only use the keyboard in my home.

Does anyone know of a small audio/cd/radio unit that I could hook the keyboard up to, that also has a recording function? 

Alternativealy, Does anyone know of a small set of speakers that sounds good?

well I have a simular piano, and I just use a Roland KC-60 keyboard amp. It would work brilliantly for your purpose...   you can get one for around $400 and so... they are around 12 kilos and are also loud enough to be used in performances and such...

[ronatello]

Despite this thread being a bit dated, I'm going to chime in since I also have a P-90 Yamaha stage piano.
It all depends on your budget. For practice, a good quality 2.1 computer speaker setup will do nicely (the .1 is for the bass box in case you're wondering). I would probably budget close to $100 or more on a 2.1 setup. M-Audio and Logitech make decent 2.1 speaker systems.
For practice purposes, a setup with 20 watts may be sufficient. Take in mind FF and FFF passages may clip the amps and cause some nasty distortion in cheap 2.1 setups if you try to play at a volume that tries to match a good grand piano.
The "church organ" setting will demand a big bass box w/ a lot of wattage to reproduce the lowest pitches.

For performance, I would spring for a higher powered setup, like 100 or so watts x2 into accurate (PA) speakers. Take in mind that cheap PA speakers will make the bright P90 sound like a tin can (blame on cheap high frequency horn tweeters )
The P90 has 2 1/4" line outputs, 2 1/4" headphone outputs, and 2 RCA line outputs, as well as MIDI 5 pin in/out.
The way I have my 2.1 setup is: A RCA patch cable (RCA plug to plug) that runs to a 2RCA jack -> 1/8" Y adapter which feeds into the 2.1 speaker amp.

Unless the speakers have a dull high end response, turn the brilliance slider to minimum or otherwise you may frighten dogs .