Yamaha YPG625 Portable Keyboard

Yamaha YPG625 88-key Weighted Portable Grand Piano at MusiciansBuy!

RATING:

Sound Quality	10
Features	10
Ease Of Use	10
Value	10
Reliability	10
Overall	10

It's hard to express just how pleased I am with the YPG-625. The piano and other voices are superb, and the graded hammer keys make this instrument feel identical to acoustic pianos I've played. It has a large crisp LCD screen, intuitive controls, and a look and feel of quality. It's also USB capable and has excellent features if you record your own music. It's no featherweight due to the weighted keys, but it's quite moveable by one reasonably strong person, and easily by two. In short, it's about the perfect blend of digital piano and keyboard.

-Irish muse
-Missouri USA, 02/19/07

Yamaha YPG625 88-key Weighted Portable Grand Piano at MusiciansBuy!

RATING:

Sound Quality	7
Features	5
Ease Of Use	10
Value	5
Reliability	10
Overall	5

This keyboard is for beginners and people who don't care much for volume. The output for this keyboard is just weak. It's nothing but noise and there is no way around it because the midi is as weak as can be. You can not use the midi section to play through a computer because it just doesn't have true midi functions so you must use the audio out which is so noisy that noise reduction in cool edit pro and cubase won't correct the problem. This keyboard is only good for a kid because of the headphone jack or someone living in an apartment building. Although the sounds are great they really can't be used for recording. The survival kit, again weak. The headphones don't cup your ear letting in outside noise and the sustain pedal is a toy. Dont be fooled by a demo in a store and, wide open spaces for sound to travel the speaker system won't cover a small room with carpet. There is just no deal here, I guess you get what you pay for. Musicians Buy does have the best price I've seen so far. I do recommend that you spend a little more for better quality.

-bill
-w.v., 02/11/08

Yamaha YPG625 88-key Weighted Portable Grand Piano at MusiciansBuy!

RATING:

Sound Quality	9
Features	10
Ease Of Use	9
Value	10
Reliability	10
Overall	10

This keyboard is very close in both feel and sound to an acoustic piano. Nicely weighted keys and a fantastic piano sound. Although I will mostly be using the grand piano voice, I also was inspired by the number of other voices. Some of the other voices are just as impressive, but with 500 voices, they all can't be home runs. There are 150 rhythms to choose from, a nifty 6 track recorder and lots of other features. I really believe this piano is the best bang for the buck. I'm amazed it doesn't cost more. I highly recommend this for the sound, price, real keyboard feel and very high quality. I will be using this for years. The only negative I have for this is they could have made the onboard amp a little more powerful. For me that's really not an issue because I have my piano hooked to an old Peavey KB 400 and some large theater speakers and it sounds great.

-Preacher Vinnie kungfu@maddbear.com
-Wisconsin, 02/14/08