Review by Skaiya for Yamaha YPG535 88 Key Portable Grand Piano with Power Supply
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First, let me say that this is a solid product for a very good price. It’s highly portable, even once you set it up. I’m not sure how much it weighs, but I’m a 5’3″, 95lbs person, and I can lift and carry this piano with a medium amount of effort. It’s got a full keyboard, and has hundreds of different sounds effects, as well as a pretty good volume range and a jack that you can plug your headphones into if you want a little bit of privacy (although, you have to buy an adapter for your headphone jack).

With that said, the main reason I didn’t give this product a full 5 stars is that when you press the keys, it’s much more difficult to press the keys closer to the top than the bottom of the keys. This probably has something to do with how the spring mechanism for the keys were designed, and I’m not sure if this is a problem with all keyboards on electronic pianos. It has taken some getting used to and sometimes, I miss notes because of the pressure differential. Also, the keys are a little too easy to press for my taste, although some might like it. Lastly, when you turn the volume all the way up, there seems to be a little bit of distortion in the sound as if the speakers can’t handle all the noise, and it’s hard to hear individual notes. Of course, just turn the volume down to medium-high or lower, and you don’t have that problem anymore.

Review by T. Cavil for Yamaha YPG535 88 Key Portable Grand Piano with Power Supply
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First off I will say that this is a beautiful keyboard which looked fantastic in the room I had it in. The problem came when I started playing it. I wanted to upgrade my 61-Key Casio to the 88 key Yamaha YPG-535. My Casio sounds 20 times better than the Yamaha. The best way I can describe the difference is that when I play my Casio, the tones sound like they’re coming from the intrument. When I play the Yamaha, the tones sound like they’re coming from speakers, bad speakers at that. I bought my Yamaha YPG-535 yesterday and I’m taking it back today. I knew within 30 seconds the sound quality was nowhere near my Casio CTK-5000. I will be upgrading still but I will be upgrading to an 88 key Casio.

Updated Review: I went into Guitar Center today and played the Yamaha YPG-535 and the Casio PX-330 side by side. Complete night and day. The Casio wins out by far. I encourage you to do the same test. I truly don’t understand the good reviews for this Yamaha. I really wanted to like it because I love the look but it just doesn’t do it for me. I also don’t understand why more people don’t complain about the volume on the YPG-535. You have to have the volume on full blast to have it play at normal sound volume. The full volume level for the Yamaha is the same volume for the Casio at medium volume level. I don’t get it! Anyways, got the Casio PX-330 and I’m totally happy with it! I won’t be taking this one back!