Keyboard magazine gives Yamaha AvantGrand rave review

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Here is the final paragraph from the review:

Conclusions:

” Yamaha has set a new benchmark for what’s possible in a grand piano substitute, and by a dramatic margin. The elephant in the room question is, “But is it worth the price?” One naysay is that you can find a more than decent baby grand for the same money or less. Having lived with an N3 for six weeks, and repeatedly compared the N3 at my local piano store to many sizes and makes of acoustic grands in the showroom, I found I needed to step into the six foot (and at least $30,000) league to hear something compelling enough to make me forget that the AvantGrand will never need tuning nor react to temperature and humidity, and can be turned down for quiet practice. Point being, the AvantGrand sounds and plays so authentically that even purists who’ve historically dismissed such standard digital piano selling points have ample reason to think again. With aplomb, Yamaha has pulled off not just a major technological leap, but a seeming contradiction: a virtual piano for people for whom nothing but a real piano will do”.

Keyboard Magazine,  July 2010