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Hi, everyone! My name is Yggor. I don't speak a very good english, then, sorry about that. I'm a piano beginner student and I want to buy a digital instrument. I've a doubt about these two models that have their prices on the limit I can pay for (they have almost the same price over here in Brazil):
1_Yamaha Clavinova 545; and
2_Roland HP 508;
I don't know about their qualities; I just know they have a "name", what isn't enough, of course.
I wouldn't know to identify small differences if I made tests by my own, because my ears have no enough training to do that.; I think beautiful all of their sounds.
Nowadays I realized, for one hand, Roland has 10 levels of sensibility, what approximates it of an acoustic piano (I guess so), for another hand, Yamaha has just 5 levels.
I don't have any interest about other funccions which comes with these instruments, only the piano funccion.
Please, I would be too much thankful and pleased if somebody could help me. I've got this ancient dream about studying piano and, to me, this is a huge decision.

Hugs.

Yggor,
Those are both excellent choices from very good companies. I personally prefer the action and sound on the roland, but many others would prefer the yamaha. It really comes down to a sense of personal preference. It's hard to tell which one you would find most suitable since you're a beginner. But the good news is that you'll adapt to whichever one you pick.

Do you plan to teach yourself, or do you plan to have a teacher? If the latter, your teacher might be willing to help you pick one out.

Warm Regards

These are both fantastic pianos, perfectly good for you. You might also consider Kawai CA17 in the same price range if its available in your area.

They are really very different, but it's a question of taste in many ways.

Sensibility levels you mentioned have nothing to do with velocity/volume as I understand it, it's just different touch curves. You can largely ignore this characteristics for your purposes. If you absolutely can't evaluate those three pianos (CLP 545, Roland HP 508, Kawai CA17) in any other way just listen to the provided demos and decide which sounds better to your ears. You will be able to efficiently work on your skills with either of them.

Hi, try a Kawai CN34/35... IMHO and for my taste, better key actions over roland and yamaha for a better price too. Cheers!.

The "number of "touch" levels" does not mean, what you think it means.

Any of those DP's will go from "ppp" to "FFF" (maybe only "pp" to "FF"), smoothly, with no "jumps" in volume, or tone quality.

You can learn to play piano with any one of them.

I agree with Charles, the levels are related to the sensitivity of the keyboard : with a Light level, a mf will sound f or ff, on hard level the same mf will sound mp or p. But all tones could be produced, not only 5.

The Roland may have 10 year guarantee in your countfy. . .