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Congrats Steve on the CP1! I really liked playing on that. I played a CP5 today while picking up a JBL EON 510 for a monitor, and after playing it back to back with the RX-700NX and NP2, I was most digging the CP5 with the S6 sample. It's just too heavy to gig with. If Kawai launches an MP6 v.2 or MP7, I'd consider trading the NP2 in for that. I love the action of the MP6 as well as the EPs. The APs work pretty good live too.

Thanks Zac!

The CP5 is what I was most interested in actually but I was very surprised to find the CP1's price had fallen from £4500 to £2600. So it quickly became a contender!

I totally agree about the MP6's action but would find it hard to use Kawai piano sounds exclusively. Not enough variety for me - but that's where the Nord comes in of course. I do wonder if getting rid of the Nord is something I will regret. Time will tell...

Cheers,

Steve

Wow, the CP1 isn't going for that, at least yet, over here. It's a fatter, fuller sound then the CP5. Whether you would hear the difference live in a band setting is questionable...but solo, definitely yes. I love the CP1. If it comes down that much over here, I'll probably get one.

It's somewhat funny-after all the new releases in the past 3 years that have come out (and disappeared) and all the criticism the CP5/1 has garnered-it's still left standing as the best sounding and playing stage DP available imo. Unfortunately for gigging players, ones like myself that are pushing 60, not the most portable.

Yes maybe because there was never a lot of hysteria about CP1/5 they have stood apart a little. They've never seemed like a faddy purchase. My interest has grown in them for sure after a very brief try of a CP5 many months ago. I couldn't get it out of my mind - there's just something about that piano sound. So bold and full and yet so articulate and musical.

I think the CP5 offers so much for the money but the CP1 seems such a pure and focused package - and now affordable. At list prices (or anything like them) the CP1 was just too expensive.

My fear is that with the plummeting street price here that a replacement might be due. But really, no matter as long as I stay happy with it!

I agree with Steve and Dave. For whatever reason the CP1/5 never were the stars that the RD-700NX was and yet it they both IMO have as good or better sound, especially the EPs and I actually prefer their actions. There was literally an RD-700NX and CP5 stacked up with each other, both plugged in and I was playing both at the same time, and I kept coming back to the CP5. The S6 sample with some reverb was excellent. If the CP5 was lighter, I'd consider trading the Nord, if nothing else, because the actions in the CP1/5 are so good. Perfect for a multi-purpose stage DP.

Dave what are the chances of picking up a good second hand CP5 for under $1,500-$1,800?

Hey Zac. Yeah although they seem to be in short supply on CLs, I do see CP5s going in that range you mentioned. I did a search the other day and one popped up on the Philadelphia CL for $1800. Here in LA I went to play one where the guy would've taken $1500, he had advertised it in primo condition. Well that wasn't the case when I played it. The action didn't feel tight and I could just tell it was pretty *used*...

There also was another one for $1600 but it was gone before I could get over there .. I'll keep looking and if something shows up in excellent condition that I can get at $1600 or under, I'll probably get it.