Hello everyone,
I used to play on acoustic pianos all my life, but the next year I will have to play on a digital piano. I have a Kawai ES-100 I purchased years ago, and it's serviceable enough that I don't want invest time into looking for an upgrade.
I do, however, an issue with it related purely to sound, which is why I am posting here.
The piano is infamously quiet compared to most similar pianos even at maximum volume, and I feel that this leads to the dynamics being very weak. It's hard to hear the difference between loud and quiet notes if the base volume is low. I want to solve this issue for both external sound and headphone usage.
Here is a link to the manual:
https://www.kawai-global.com/data/manuals/KPSZ-0653_ES100_EN_R100.pdf
1. How do I properly connect a pair of Kali Lp-6 2nd Wave to this piano? It has pretty basic output channels so I'm not sure if there is any specific setup I would need for optimal sound quality.
2. The headphones I am using are the Sennheiser HD 560S. Would using a stronger headphone amp to get louder sound from the piano be a viable solution? Or are there other devices I could use to simply increase the volume of the headphones? Stage pianos should provide plenty of power for an HD 560s so I think an amp would probably be overkill and not what I need, but I'm really uncertain. The sound quality is fine so I really think I would only need to boost the volume by a significant amount.
Thanks a lot!
I used to play on acoustic pianos all my life, but the next year I will have to play on a digital piano. I have a Kawai ES-100 I purchased years ago, and it's serviceable enough that I don't want invest time into looking for an upgrade.
I do, however, an issue with it related purely to sound, which is why I am posting here.
The piano is infamously quiet compared to most similar pianos even at maximum volume, and I feel that this leads to the dynamics being very weak. It's hard to hear the difference between loud and quiet notes if the base volume is low. I want to solve this issue for both external sound and headphone usage.
Here is a link to the manual:
https://www.kawai-global.com/data/manuals/KPSZ-0653_ES100_EN_R100.pdf
1. How do I properly connect a pair of Kali Lp-6 2nd Wave to this piano? It has pretty basic output channels so I'm not sure if there is any specific setup I would need for optimal sound quality.
2. The headphones I am using are the Sennheiser HD 560S. Would using a stronger headphone amp to get louder sound from the piano be a viable solution? Or are there other devices I could use to simply increase the volume of the headphones? Stage pianos should provide plenty of power for an HD 560s so I think an amp would probably be overkill and not what I need, but I'm really uncertain. The sound quality is fine so I really think I would only need to boost the volume by a significant amount.
Thanks a lot!
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