Yamaha DGX230AD 76 Key Portable Grand with power

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 28.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001D7JYDI
• Item model number: DGX230AD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,702 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 25, 2008

Product Description

If you're looking for a reasonably priced piano replacement, look no further than the DGX-230. It is the music student or professional musicians answer to I need more keys! and many music teachers encourage new students to get a keyboard that will grow with their needs. It features 76 non-weighted keys that not only look like piano keys but have a Graded Soft Touch (GST) action with different levels of resistance, making it easier for a budding musician to move to an acoustic or digital piano. The DGX-230 delivers on its piano theme with a special mode of fingering called Full Keyboard Mode. This allows the player to play the keyboard like a piano; for example a chord with the right hand and bass notes with the left.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Superior Yamaha Keyboard, January 11, 2010

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M. Perez (El Paso, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha DGX230AD 76 Key Portable Grand with power (Personal Computers)

This keyboard was a Christmas gift for my son and it greatly exceeded my expectations. My son had an inexpensive Casio keyboard that had long ago served its purpose, although I didn't realize it at the time. My son asked for a better keyboard since he's interested in playing in a group with some friends. What I like about Amazon is that they make it so easy to get a lot of information about the product you're looking for, and even include links for alternative options.

Once my son opened his new gift, I was impressed by the much more sophisticated sound of the Yamaha keyboard, its expanded capabilities and the ease with which my son transitioned to its use. My son would seldom use his old keyboard to practice, but with the new Yamaha I see him practice much more and enjoying it. The Yamaha DGX230AD allowed me to exceed my son's expectations without breaking the bank.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A relatively inexpensive indulgence, September 19, 2009

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Dr Mike - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha DGX230AD 76 Key Portable Grand with power (Personal Computers)

I'm very pleased that I purchased this keyboard for my home. I can't believe the price of the unit was so low for the quality and features. This may be the entertainment bargain of the decade at Amazon. This is a lot of fun to play with even if you have limited talent in music. I play it about 5 times a week in the evenings and it is good for destressing at the end of the day. I was debating getting a system with fewer keys, but I'm glad I went with this system for basically the same price. There are so many features on this system that I have yet to try out everything. I've tried out most of the voices and have no complaints. This has everything I could possibly want and more for a home system. This system also comes with a power supply included, so no need to buy one separately. It does not come with a sustain pedal though. I plan to buy one soon. Since I do woodworking, I made my own stand, so I can't comment on the quality of the stands offered by Yamaha. There is a wire-style stand and a wooden stand, so I think the wooden stand would be the way to go if you were using this in a permanent location.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Received a brand new but (mechanically) defective unit, August 14, 2009

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a reader (Palo Alto, California, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha DGX230AD 76 Key Portable Grand with power (Personal Computers)

I borrowed DGX230 from a friend and was pretty happy with it for a couple of months (till the end of the loan). Happy enough to order one, which turned out to be defective. The lowest "B"-key was much harder to press than its neighbors and took about twice as much pressure to go all the way down (yes, I did measure it with weights). It did "make a sound", that is why I put "(mechanically) defective" in the title.

I did like the first keyboard, though.
Its touch, though not weighted and softer than typical piano touch, might still sometimes remotely resemble piano touch for the following reason. When the key is being pressed, the point of "maximum resistance" occurs near the top position, then the key goes down more easily (sorry for this clumsy description). Of course, nonweighted keys do not have any noticeable inertia, but that hardly mattered to me when playing slowly. The touch was much better than in Casio's WK200 or WK500.
(By the way, the defective key on DGX-230 did not have this feature: I would have to press harder and harder as it went lower.)

Other than that, DGX-230 is light and good-looking, and there are some nice voices among roughly 500 XGlite patches.