CompleteMartialArts.com - Casio PX120 Privia Digital Piano
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List Price: $499.00
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Casio
EAN: 0079767361310
Feature: 88-key piano keyboard, with Touch Response^128 notes^Effects: Brilliance (3 to 3), Reverb (4 types), chorus (4 types), Acoustic Resonance^60 Songs^Auto Accompaniment
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Model: CAS PX120
Number Of Items: 1
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Release Date: 2008-05-08
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Features
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88-key piano keyboard, with Touch Response^128 notes^Effects: Brilliance (3 to 3), Reverb (4 types), chorus (4 types), Acoustic Resonance^60 Songs^Auto Accompaniment
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Casio Privia PX-120 has a a full, rich sound with grand piano keyboard touch in a lightweight portable digital piano. The advanced AIF sound source provides 128 note polyphony providing you with full musical expression where notes reverberate na...
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great, Except...
Comment: I received my PX-120 yesterday. I can affirm both the positive and negative aspects of all the previous reviewers. However, I would like to emphasize certain aspects of this keyboard.
The body of the PX-120 is very thin, so it is ideal for small spaces.
The keys feel absolutely amazing. If I were to close my eyes I would believe it was an acoustic grand piano.
However, the speakers are not very good at all. The sound, although realistic, sounds muffled when played over the keyboard's small, built-in speakers. With such an overall great design, I would not have thought that Casio would have overlooked this critical aspect of a keyboard. Alternately, when using an external sound source, the tone quality is astounding.
Overall, this keyboard is probably the best in the $500 or less range.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful budget digital piano if you get a good one
Comment: I got the Casio PX-120 because it was the least expensive digital piano that met my requirements -- it's a full keyboard, has a very life-like piano feel, will allow you to practice with headphones, and -- with 128 note polyphony -- does not suffer from drop-outs in complex playing contexts. The keyboard instruments (two grand pianos, two electric pianos, a harpsichord, and a pipe organ) and the vibraphone are all pleasing to my ears. My worry with this and its Casio and Yamaha cognates were that a depressingly large number of people seem to report defective products in this price-range. It appears that M Williams was saddled with one of the bad ones -- there appears to be a tendency for the speakers to be defective in this model (although I have not seen anyone else report having problems with the headphone jacks.) Since everything that I researched that was within a couple hundred dollars of this unit also had a fair number of reports of failures out of the box, I decided to take a chance on this one.
So far, so good. I am delighted with the sound quality and the feel of the instrument. It would be nice if there were more attention to QC during manufacture of this class of digital piano, but it does appear to be a bit of a crap shoot. So, if you decide to get one of these pianos, you may well want to make sure that the dealer is reputable and will swap it out without giving you a problem if you get a bad one. If you get a good one, it is a real treasure at a very attractive price point.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just a question for previous reviewer
Comment: I wanted to ask the previous reviewer what he means by "metallic rattle or buzz". You said that was applicable to samples. I don't even know what samples mean. Do you mean when you put the keyboard in a mode to play different sounds? Because I only play the regular piano sound and if the keyboard doesn't produce any rattle or buzz (on regular piano sound mode) then this keyboard would be perfect for me. I often turn down the volume a lot so no one can hear me practice and I don't like to wear headphones. So, if this new model doesn't make any clunking sound when you release the keys as you stated, I think that's great.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some Improvements over the PX110, but...
Comment:
I traded in a PX-110 for a PX-120. I bought the Casio so I could practice piano using headphones. The most important features for me are piano action, piano sounds and metronome. I don't care much about the other features and sounds, although sometimes I use the recording feature to lay down a bass line I can solo over.
Pros:
* The action is significantly better in the PX120 as compared to the PX110. The loud clunking caused by the key return in the PX110 is gone in the PX120. Big difference!
* 128 note polyphony means no notes cut out when you hold down the damper pedal during long runs. Nice.
* Notes sustain longer when held and this sounds more realistic than the PX-110.
* The "classic" piano setting is better than the PX110.
* Metronome volume can be adjusted in the PX120.
Cons:
* The "modern" setting sounds too metallic, brittle and "twangy" for my taste, especially with headphones. So the "classic" sound is the only usable piano setting, in my opinion.
* The samples are problematic for 3 notes: the second D#, E and F above middle C. There is a noticeable metallic rattle or buzz when these notes are struck firmly. Very annoying, especially with headphones. How could Casio let the product go out the door with this flaw? The PX-320 has the same problem (I went back to the store and checked the floor models with headphones).
* The sound is a little bass-heavy in the PX-120. The PX-110 has a more balanced sound.
* The metronome could be set to "ding" in 5/4 time (every five beats) in the PX110, and this feature was removed in the PX120. The promotional literature for the PX120 is incorrect on this point. The PX120 metronome can be set to ding every 0,2,3,4 and 6 beats. Not a huge deal, but I don't see why they had to remove it, as 5/4 isn't that uncommon anymore.
* Still no 1/4" output jack, although I don't plan to do gigs with the PX120, so not a big deal to me.
The sound annoyances with the PX-120 are making it hard for me to decide between the PX-110 and the PX-120. Both models have flaws, so it's a matter of deciding which flaws with which to live. I'm really annoyed at Casio for the sample quality in the PX-120. If it wasn't for the problem with the 3 notes, I'd stick with the PX-120.
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