Electronics : Yamaha DGX620 - Digital Piano -88 Full Size Touch Sensitive Piano Style Keys

Rating: - Very good for the price, but not clever enough
This is my second keyboard I ever owned, after a cheap £300 Casio I had for years that eventually developed faulty keys. I did not try this anywhere so only relied on the reviews. It is very heavy to begin with. The design quality is beautiful. The keys are perfect for playing any styles. It sounds greate. One impressive feature was the score panel that you can play from. That is very valuable. I don't know why they do not emphasise on improving that.

On the downside, I was disappointed with few things:
1. As one reviewer mentioned, its a pain to find the instrument you want and setup things for quick access. Why can't the manufacturers get these things right?

2. The sound is not loud enough. On full volume it just becomes acceptable. It could be that I am not used to the weighted keys, so I need to hammer it harder. The church organ is less touch sensitive and it does sound loud.

3. There is no proper connection for connecting to external spearkers / amp. I have to investigate that.

4. The most annoying thing is the DSP. On my Casio pressing the dedicated reverb will improve the sound dramatically. On this you have to spend a good few minutes set the reverb and it does nothing noticable as it does on my Casio. So the sound is always flat, which is a huge let down. Also a very frustrating thing is it does not seem to save the settings and loses it when you switch it off. Unless I have got it wrong, the system is not very intuitive as it should be.

5. It has over 100 DSP, playing un tunnel, in a chicken cage,under the matress, while falling of a cliff, (being sarcastic),

6. The fun sounds, are waste of space.

7. and lastly the headphone jack should be in front.

overall it is a good value for money.

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Rating: - A really versatile value for money keyboard
We bought this keyboard for use in church services and have been extremely pleased with it. We use the Chapel Organ and Warm Grand sounds mostly and they do a remarkably good job of sounding like a chapel organ and a nice grand piano! We plug the keyboard into a Yamaha Stagepass Amplifier and the combination seems to work well and has given us a very versatile setup without spending too much.

I am a classically trained pianist who has a lovely fully-weighted Clavinova at home. I had bought an M-Audio "semi-weighted" keyboard for church, which I'm sure is a great keyboard, but I just couldn't get on with playing it after my Clavinova. But I find the experience of playing the DGX620 so similar to playing my Clavinova that I have no problems switching from one to the other. The keyboard is amazingly light but I find it has the quality feel of a weighted keyboard and is a pleasure to play. The screen is also very helpful in telling you what instrument you are set to - no embarassing starts in the wrong instrument!

Loads of other fab features - the MIDI is great, laying down tracks on top of each other, it will probably make the dinner if you press the buttons in the right order! Altogether we are very impressed with the versatility, quality and good value of this instrument.

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Rating: - Remarkably Good Keyboard/Piano
Is the DGX620 a piano or a keyboard? Typically manufacturers of electric pianos tend to offer limited functions and voices, as if adding more features and accompaniments detracts from the job in hand, namely that of reproducing an authentic piano sound and feel. In this respect, the DGX620 is clearly closer to keyboard than piano. The DGX620 does however offer a surprisingly good piano sound, superior to that of most keyboards, and in this respect it qualifies for the title of piano.

Another surprising feature of the DGX620 is the inclusion of the Yamaha GHS (Graded Hammer Standard)keyboard; with 88 fully weighted, touch sensitive keys. This is the same keyboard the features on their more expensive P70/P85 electric stage piano offering a professional feel similar to that of an acoustic piano. The inclusion of the GHS keyboard makes this a real step up from the DGX520. I had the opportunity to play both at my local music store and put next to each other the DGX620 is a vastly superior instrument in every important respect.

The DGX620 is quite a large instrument at 45cm deep, so it's not great if space is at a premium. I would have to agree with the Mr. Marshall above however, for the money this is a remarkable keyboard/piano.

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Rating: - Piano Playability on a Keyboard
Hi there, Ok I have only been playing for a few months, but I work at a school that has bought one of these, and I cannot work for wanting to play this thing.

I have the Yamaha PSR-295 in my house - but the difference the weighted keys make to the playing experience is phenomenal. I could play the DGX620 for hours.

The 3 way speakers they include give a surprisingly full bodied tone even at high volume - and it retains integrity when cranked low as to not disturb the neighbours. To top all that it looks much more stylish than it does in the picture here. For the money - this is simply fantastic.