🎹Kawai ES920 vs Kawai ES8 Digital Piano Comparison - Massively Improved Sound🎹

Intro: 1:34 Sound Comparison: 5:58 Action: 15:30 Features/Connectivity: 22:13 Comparable Alternatives: #Kawai Greetings to all, and welcome to the Merriam Pianos YouTube channel. We’ve got the old vs the new today as we pit the massively successful ES8 against it’s new replacement, the ES920. We’ll cover all of the upgrades, but most importantly, the tone, which is where Kawai really focused their efforts. The ES920 has some big shoes to fill, so keep watching to see if we think the ES920 succeeds in this endeavour! Please like the video below, and if it’s your first time to the channel, subscribe and hit that notification bell! First Impressions: Playing these two instruments side-by-side for the first time was really quite eye opening. While some folks have opined online that they don’t think Kawai really did a whole lot here to advance the ES920, we are Merriam have the opposite view, and feel that on a playability/musicality level there’s a very significant difference. Right away, the difference in sound output is extreme, most likely owing to the redesigned on-board speaker setup as the ES8 used a pair of 15 watt speakers, whereas the ES920 beefs those up to a pair of 20’s. They both use the same Harmonic Imaging XL engine, but the ES920 incorporates a new motherboard design, developed in concert with Onkyo (along with the speakers and amps), that greatly upgrades the signal processing. Now we’ll do a deeper dive into some subjective opinions about the...