🎹 Kawai DG30 vs Roland GP6 | Which Digital Grand Piano Reigns Supreme? 🎹

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0:00 - Video Introduction on the Kawai DG30 vs Roland GP6
0:27 - Sound Demo Roland GP6
1:06 - Sound Demo Kawai DG30
1:44 - Roland GP6 Spec Rundown
7:12 - Spec Rundown Kawai DG30
9:54 - Piano Sound and Experience Review
11:34 - More Playing on the GP6
13:31 - More Playing on the DG30
20:19 - Piano Action Review
21:08 - Final Thoughts

Hello! Today we’ve got a big comparison of a couple of newer models from the digital baby grand category as we’ll be seeing how the Kawai DG30 and Roland GP6 stack up to one another.

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Video Overview
Digital baby grands have been gaining in popularity like never before due to their aesthetic appeal, smaller footprint and minimal maintenance requirements.

On this channel, we’ve been closely tracking the ever-narrowing gap between digital and acoustic pianos, which has brought high-quality musical experiences to players of all skill levels without the barrier of a huge price tag.

Roland GP6 Spec Rundown
The GP6 is equipped with Roland’s Piano Reality Premium Modeling sound engine, which delivers an authentic grand piano sound experience with unlimited polyphony. Modeling engines also offer a ton of editability in terms of shaping the piano sound to your own liking.

There are 324 total sounds and a powerful 5-speaker system with 85 watts of rated output power.

In terms of the action, it’s equipped with the new Piano Reality Premium Keyboard, which is an update to the popular PHA50 Roland has been using for several years. This action boasts wood and plastic hybrid keys, escapement, ivory feel keys and the new accelerated key sensing technology for ultra-detailed touch response, the key upgrade over the PHA50.

The other big highlight of the GP6 is the new discrete, multi-channel digital amplification, which means there’s absolutely no signal degradation occurring at any time. The improved clarity of the sound over the previous generation GP-607 is staggering, and probably the clearest-sounding Roland digital piano we’ve played up to this point.

Finally, Roland has gone with a Smart Touch panel for navigating the instrument, and you can turn off the backlight so that it disappears anytime you aren’t interacting with the panel. Otherwise, the GP6 is equipped with Bluetooth MIDI and Audio, dual headphone jacks, USB ports, and all standard features like a metronome and transpose.

The GP6 is available in a genuine polyester finish in both Black and White.

Kawai DG30 Spec Rundown
The DG30 is equipped with the Responsive Hammer III (RHIII) action with left-off, triple sensor key detection and ivory touch key surfaces. It is a plastic action but is often regarded as the best plastic action on the market.

The tone engine is the Progressive Harmonic Imaging (PHI) tech, and this features an SK-EX concert grand piano with 88-key stereo sampling. The DG30 has 350 sounds and 256-note polyphony.

Driving the system is a pair of 20-watt amps for 40 watts in total, dispersed among 3 speakers. The DG30 is also equipped with Bluetooth MIDI and Audio, dual headphone jacks, USB to host and device, a 16-track MIDI recorder and it also has a ton of preloaded music and repertoire.

The finish is also genuine polyester, and it is available in polished Black.

The Piano Experience
We highly recommend spending time with both of these pianos tweaking the sound settings to optimize things to your own preference, as well as the space your piano will be occupying.

Playing them side-by-side, it’s immediately clear just how different the sonic experience is on each piano. The DG30’s sound feels much closer, similar to an upright piano experience. There’s also a lot of cabinet resonance and warmth as well. Clarity is good, but the sound does start to blend when you have a lot going on.

Over on the GP6, the sound is a lot bigger and wider, so the sonic experience is much closer to a grand piano as opposed to an upright. And it’s so clear - even with a ton of notes ringing out, the sound is incredibly clear.

Action Comparison
Even though the PRP and RHIII actions are made with different materials, the playing experience isn’t all that different. There is more lateral give on the RHIII and the keybed feels softer, so players that really like to dig in might prefer the PRP.

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