I really, really like the design, keys, build-quality and probably the sound of the MP10, but for a 'portable' piano it's simply just way too heavy for me (the MP8 was that too - that's why I never bought one). I think most of the details are out in the open now delivery of MP10 earliest in december, price a bit above current MP prices.įor me personally I'm very undecided on the whole thing. Please manufacturers think twice someone who wants all the bells and whistles buys the top-end machine anyway, but others might be pushed away ! If Kawai doesn't offer that, than the competition may have very interesting alternatives and they simply might loose a potential customer. It's fully in line with how current marketing departments work in all product ranges these days and no surprise, but nevertheless a disappointment that Kawai hasn't got the will to be different in this respect.ģ1kg is a lot to carry around, so it's understandable that a striped down version in hardware (but please not in sound quality) is a logical choice for a lot of people.
Indeed in terms of weight and/or features they really need and others they can do without. It's purely marketing trick and I'm sure people really would love to have the choice in spending more on extra sounds and more and better hardware on high-end products, but don't want to sacrifice the quality of the few basic sounds that are left on the lower priced products when they decide that these products better fit their needs. I'm almost 100% sure that the electronics and software required to enable the same basic sound quality over the whole range of products is not the ultimate "cost issue" once it has been developed. Someone repeatedly compared it to the SN boards found in almost ALL current Roland products -> they all offer the same basic SN piano sound, but differ in amount of sounds, tweak-ability and hardware features.
The discussion has been on this forum more often. I completely agree with the issue of stripping down the sound quality in lower priced products.
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