Digital piano: Casio PX-110 VS PX-120

[casparma]

Hi

I am going to study abroad and I would like to have a piano in my room. After some research, I find Casio PX-110 or PX-120 suitable, because they aren't that expensive and also have the touch of a real piano as Casio claims.

Now, can any one with experience over digital piano tell me any significant difference between these two models?

Personally, I would like to have a built in metronome, the ability to record what I play and play it back to me, and finally, I hope the piano can act as a nice audio speaker set, so I can just plug my laptop audio output to the piano to have a nice sound effect when I watch a movie on the laptop.

here are the links for info on
PX-110: https://www.casio.com/products/Musical_Instruments/Privia_Digital_Pianos/PX-110/

PX-120: https://www.casio.com/products/Musical_Instruments/Privia_Digital_Pianos/PX-120/



please help

thanks

[casparma]

no body? 

can any one please help?

thanks

[Petter]

I actually played on both today. At least I think so  . The PR-120 felt alot better but don´t take my word for it, I just played briefly. I own a PR 100 myself but I use Ivory for the piano sound, the original piano sound is pretty crappy on that one.

[casparma]

ok, but, can you tell me, based on what you see from the links in my first post, which digital piano serve the purpose I described? I have trouble understanding some terminology used in their specifications.

Please help

thanks

[gerryjay]

 dear casparma:

 let me help you otherwise. i think you're buying something for the wrong reasons, and you have a high percentage of chance to end with a expensive stuff that satisfy nothing you need. let's see:
 -  built-in metronome: they have no alternative features (division of the beat, composition of bars). i'll tell you to buy a boss db-30 or similar instead;
 - record and playback: although some people find this interesting, you're recording low-end midi. if your purpose is to record study and listen to it, ok. anything else, it sucks, imo.
 - speakers: well...never thought about that, and i wonder what would be the result. i would tell you to buy a nice, portable, budget pair of JBL speakers, for instance.

 **********

 about the digital pianos themselves, go for a yamaha. the psr-120 is a very interesting model, provide you have a very stable support (otherwise it will shake while you play, and that's really anoying). of course, don't expect "real piano touch" or "real piano sound" because that's talk. i have a (very non-portable) CLP-240, and it's a really amazing digital piano: it's not a piano by any means. anyway, it's always calibrated and tuned, and this makes me love it! 

 hope it could help a bit. best luck!

[nyonyo]

I have a Casio. If you want to really learn properly, you need to get a real piano. The touch is too lite, so that that your fingers will become weak.  But if you just play for fun, it is a great inexpensive digital piano.

[casparma]

thanks for all the responses!

I do know that a digital piano at the moment cannot of course 100% mimic the feel and touch of a real piano. However, since I am going to study abroad for university (rather science oriented) and I hope to do piano study, I want a piano for practice in my dorm.

If the casio ones are bad, can any one tell me then, any model of digital piano with about the same portability and price, which has the best piano touch according to you?

please help

thanks

[gyzzzmo]

i tried out ALOT of digital piano's, and my favourites were the yamaha clavinova's. If i were you i would try out a couple of those

Gyzzzmo

[emmas_dad]

I have a Yamaha CLP-115. My piano before this was an old Wurlitzer, and when I got the digital piano, the touch was much heavier. I really had to work to push the keys down. When I bought the 115, I compared the touch with a Yamaha grand, and it was quite similar.

Would that I could have a real piano, but budget and space don't allow it.

[casparma]

thanks for all the responses.

I know CLP-115 or any CLP series is likely to be good, but none is portable.

Since you guys seem to recommend Yamaha digital pianos more,
The two portable Yamaha ones I found are:
1) https://music.yamaha.com/products/specifications.html?productId=792251&hierarchy_id=20019_20018_16277
2) https://music.yamaha.com/products/specifications.html?productId=792248&hierarchy_id=20019_20018_16277

what do you think about them?

As I said again, I need the portable ones. The ones that I can carry myself.

please help

thanks

[gerryjay]

 in one word: 120.

 (well, that's not a word, but you get it... )

 best!

[gerryjay]

 by the way...

 people always say that it's impossible to develop with a digital piano, but i really disagree with that. first, we must agree that a real Piano (with capital P) is a grand, steinway or the like, in a place with nice acoustics (because a grand in a 400 square feet room is like drinking a good wine in a plastic cup). well, who have that conditions at home?

 if you are 99% of population  and don't, so you buy an upright. and then you find yourself, after a month at best, with an instrument out of tune and with some keys slightly out of balance. this is the way to develop properly?
 in the other hand, you have a plastic piano: pitch and regulation always perfect, but touch is 90% and sound less than 75% of an average grand.

 what is the best option? to me, frankly, neither. you have to counterattack both situations with creativity, good orientation and a steinway you can play regularly (once in a month is regularly).

 my opinion: since i just can´t stand a mistuned instrument, i practice in a digital currently. what about my development: never was so good. and it have a gift: the three pedals (soft, sostenuto and damper). after you get used to this magic third pedal (that no upright seems to have), it´s impossible to play again some works (debussy's preludes in particular) without it.

 best!

[casparma]

So,

which brand of portable digital piano is better? yamaha or casio?

[nyonyo]

by the way...

 people always say that it's impossible to develop with a digital piano, but i really disagree with that. first, we must agree that a real Piano (with capital P) is a grand, steinway or the like, in a place with nice acoustics (because a grand in a 400 square feet room is like drinking a good wine in a plastic cup). well, who have that conditions at home?

My experience is that I cannot develop my finger strength on Casio. I had problem playing on a Grand piano after I practice on Casio. However, after I bought my upright, I really have no problem at all playing on any grand, Steinway, Bechstein, Bosendorfer etc.  I think Casio's keys are too light which did not allow my fingers to develop properly.

[casparma]

interesting, nyonyo,

because my experience was that, the grand piano keys are generally too light for my feeling as I practice mainly on my upright piano. My experience with upright piano is that it generally has notably heavier keys than the ones on the grand piano. So, I frequently find that I play louder on the grand piano.

So, I mean, if Casio's keys are even ligher than the grand, wouldn't that be crazy?

Any way, tell me which one is better, Yamaha or Casio's most recent PORTABLE digital pianos with weighted keys.....

thanks

[casparma]

Any other people with experience over Casio / Yahoo's digital piano? are the keys really that light?

[aewanko]

Any other people with experience over Casio / Yahoo's digital piano? are the keys really that light?

Me. A 61 keyed piano however (LK-215). Those keys are not even weighted! I'll show you a photo later.