Yamaha YPG525 Portable Grand Keyboard

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Overall User Ratings

Overall: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :. 9.1 out of 10 Features: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10
Quality: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :..  8.5 out of 10 Value: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10
I Want It: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10 Sound: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  .  7 out of 10
Ease of Use: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :..  .  7.5 out of 10 Support: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10

Individual User Reviews

Overall: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  8 out of 10
Features: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10
Quality: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  .  7 out of 10
Value: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  8 out of 10
I Want It: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  8 out of 10
Sound: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  8 out of 10
Ease of Use: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  8 out of 10
Support: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10

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"Pretty good, but not perfect"

Feature:
A lot of features, the key touch is not impressive though...

Quality:
I was quite disappointed with the vibration felt during even mid level piano playing, it is quite distracting. Overall the unit is quite cheaply constructed, and this must account for the vibrations from speakers and keys.

Value:
Fair.

Desirability:
Everyone that hears it likes it a lot.

Sound:
Good sounds, especially the flute and sax and drums. The piano is a little poor compared to Roland, but not too bad. Not very loud...

Ease of Use:
While there are a lot of features, the menu is quite extensive and not necessarily intuitive. Quite time consuming to make minor changes to sounds and to move between settings and sounds.

Support:
Good so far.

Overall:
I will need to supplement with a more serious workstation with greater polyphony like the Juno G, Motif, or Triton. I am sure that it will be a nice toy for the next 10 to 12 years before replacement.

User: a customer from hotmail.com

Submitted: 4/17/2007

Style of Music: Various

Location: Minnesota

Overall: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: 10 out of 10
Features: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  9 out of 10
Quality: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: 10 out of 10
Value: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: 10 out of 10
I Want It: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: 10 out of 10
Sound: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  .  .  6 out of 10
Ease of Use: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  .  7 out of 10
Support: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: .  .  .  7 out of 10

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"Feels a lot like a real piano and sounds better than most."

Feature:
Only slight complaint is that the display screen is kind of small, bu tgiven that it is clear and bright.

Quality:
Everything looks great. I would worry a bit about the stand if I was moving the unit much, being made of particle board and needing one to lie on the floor with a screwdriver to attach/detach the keyboard from the stand. For in-home use, though, it's fine.

Value:
For the sound, feel and features it's a great deal.

Ease of Use:
With so many features it would be hard to be entirely intuitive, but we have found that there are a lot of features that we hve to look in the manual to figure out, and we tend to be a "Manual? We don' need no steenkin MANUAL!" kind of family.

Overall:
Unless we win a lottery we will keep this unit as long as it keeps going. We would replace it with the same if it came to an insurance claim, etc.

User: a customer from shaw.ca

Submitted: 1/29/2007

Style of Music: Eclectic

Location: Rosedale, BC, Canada