I agree wholeheartedly about the piano sound through headphones...it is an astonishing piano, and a whole level above what you hear on any other digital...it's just that I can't stand wearing headphones, especially when the Avant Grand sounds so glorious when allowed to breathe.

It's very easy to forget you are playing a digital piano...the way the tactile feedback adds to the experience, can't be over-emphasized...it gives it, as I like to call it, "soul".

I miss playing it, but the opportunity to sell without a loss was too good to pass up...now I await the next generation with hopes they add the strings and pads.

And, yes, the electric piano sounds were excellent as well.


Snazzy

Dewster -- we are working on the DPBSD file and figuring it out -- so where do we send the file?

Thanks!

MediaFire is pretty easy to use and free:

http://www.mediafire.com

I think you make a directory and upload the file to it. Sharing is on by default, so all we need is a link to it, which you can get by clicking on the "share" button, copying it, and pasting it here in the forum. For example, here is the link to my DPBSD MediaFire directory:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7ef2fd9c0f59e62824a64199ac7f73e562543888620acf74e91dc00c2f906379

I think you'd have to sign up in order to be able to create your own directory. If you don't want to bother signing up, you can just simply click on Upload, which will upload your file to the default MediaFire "MyFiles" directory. Then you just follow Dewster's instruction above about getting the link to your file from the "Share" button and give it to him.

Here is the result of playing the DPBSD on the CLP 990:

Whew! That was a lot of work! Here it is:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ywmz5mzmmod/CLP990_dp_bsd_v1.5.mp3

Recorded through the headphone jack because we couldn't get stereo from the aux out.

Hope this works! Interested in the comparisons . . .

Thank you nan for going to all that trouble - I do appreciate it!

I reviewed it this morning and just posted the results over in the DPBSD thread here.

Your DP is rather old, but being a more high-end model it isn't aging too badly. If you want to replace it with another console type DP you might consider the Roland HP-307, HP-305, or HP-302 as they all have the SuperNATURAL sound generator. Personally I'd avoid all Yamaha consoles until they update & improve the sounds to remove audible sample compression artifacting.

My husband tells me the results are interesting, not that I understand any of it. I still want to try an Avant Grand out which I'll do sometime. You can go ahead and pick my 990 apart -- I feel pretty happy with it! Also surprised at how good it still measures up to what is available. Thanks for the info.

I'd be interested in your impressions of it.


DP sound generation technology has been in something of a stasis. That's why I think it is wise to wait absolutely as long as one can before upgrading, and only then if the replacement is a genuine step up.

He just thought the testing interesting and how you evaluate the sounds. It was a big surprise to me to find out that my 990 is holding up very well. Still I'm curious about the acoustic touch keyboard in the Avant Grand which from what I understand should be much better than mine. Also in how it sounds compared to my 990. But now I like my 990 even more!