The sound comparison was even more interesting. Not necessarily bad, but of the two the RD was certainly more true to an acoustic grand action. Although I didn't love the RD's action, the Nord action felt very light and bouncy by comparison.

It was interesting A/Bing the RD against the Nord Piano 4.

Having experienced both the RD and VP within a short space of time, I'd say the RD is subjectively around 75% as good as the VP, factoring in purely the experience of playing and hearing the acoustic piano sounds (not all the other sounds). I spent quite a while tweaking the settings on the RD2K in the store and I was able to get some sounds that I was pleased with (I even saved a few sounds on that store demo unit in case I went back later to test). I must say I prefer the harder bottoming out of the V-Piano's PHA 3, but from a purely superficial standpoint it's a shame the VP keys don't have the same classy wooden side fascias as the newer PHA 5!

But it makes sense that they'd have the same keybed really. Interesting, I could've sworn the Fantom 8 and RD2K felt slightly different.

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