Dynatone Digital Grands

[robert]

Anyone having experience with the Korean Dynatone DP series (DP80, DP90 or DP100)?

From the specification list and comparing with for example Yamaha, it seems really interesting as it is half the price of Yamaha but I have never seen any in the shops of Sweden. From what I have heard, they will arrive in Sweden within a month.

Here is the link to their page (is there any other page which is in english? Could not find any...):
https://dynatone.en.ec21.com/product_list.jsp?group_id=GC01214815&group_nm=Grand_Piano

[sirpazhan]

Never experienced with dynatone,, but I'd take a yamaha over it anyday.

also look at these links:

https://www.s-trademart.com/co/d/dynatone/pgroup.html?grp=GC01214815

https://www.jimlaabspianos.com/digital/dynatone/dynatone.htm

remember, you get what you pay for.

[robert]

Yes I understand how these grands probably not have the same quality in tone or action. I actually have a Yamaha CLP-170 myself but am always interested in news on the market.

Something I cannot understand is why they always (Yamaha included) use so little memory for samples. It is ridiculous as there is really no money to save there at all. Is it that they wish to avoid all the time it takes sampling the sound? Is it that they cannot process the sound quickly enough? Someone enlighten me! Dynatone boasts about 10 MB as huge sample memory for the piano sound, Yamaha does the same with 24 or 32 while most computer sample software sample each 88 key 8 times using 2 GB of sample memory!

What I am looking for is an instrument with a really good touch, a powerful amplifier and speaker system that sounds relly good together with a nice look (as my wife would appreciate that a lot ). Then I can use an external computer and use midi to control that from the keyboard while lineing the sound back from the computer into the grand piano, bypassing the interal sound (hope that is possible, at least it should be with midi omni mode 1). Then I get an instrument that I can change the volume with (my family appreciates that) and play using headphones (my family appreciates that even more) and for which I only need to change the computer for each 3 year when there comes out a new set of piano samples.

Yes, Yamaha GT2 would be perfect for this as it has the wodden keyboard from the CFIII concert grand but they have deliberately NOT implemented midi omni mode 1 (I cannot think anything else than that this is intentional) to avoid people using the grand with external computers and their line in function. But well, you can always open up the piano and cut off the cables in between the loudspeakers and the amplifier. But who wants to do that on a $10,000 piano.

And for anyone pointing out that I should buy a real piano instead...I already have two  .