Roland FP-30

Advantages: I will compare with the Casio AP-460, which, although it costs 15-20 thousand more, but if you add the cost of the rack (9 thousand) and pedals (7 thousand) to Roland, these are the most direct competitors.
Why I compare these two pianos is pretty obvious. If you are planning to buy a piano for a house from a budget of 60 thousand, then you have exactly two options: buy an average Casio model in a classic wooden case (AP-460), or buy the youngest Roland model (FP-30) or Yamaha (P-115 ) in a compact case and, if desired, supplement them with a stand and pedals (you get the same 60-65 thousand). Last year I chose Casio, but this year, buying a second piano, I stopped at Roland. I'll tell you about the pros and cons of each decision.
Advantages of Roland:
1. Good keyboard. No, just a great keyboard! Long keys (about half a centimeter longer than Casio), with pleasant and understandable responsiveness. Very quiet, almost no knocking.
2. A very pleasant sound of the lower octaves - velvet, deep bass.
3. Adequate default settings, I tried to change and adjust everything I could, but in the end I understood that the default settings suit me the most. At the same Cacio, the default settings are just disgusting, the sound is like a pipe.

Disadvantages: Disadvantages of Roland:
1. Everything is plastic. The most common black plastic, without any hint of premium. Casio has everything wooden (or rather, chipboard and veneer, of course), but it looks many times more attractive and richer, against the background of Roland it is just a work of art. Yes, I understand that I am comparing the cheapest Roland in a compact case with the more expensive Casio in the classic wooden case. But the bottom line is that similar to the quality of the performance of the AP-460 Roland or Yamaha are 2 times more expensive (closer to 120 thousand).
2. Sound. For Roland, the basement is much richer, but the middle with a strong electronic tint resembles an electronic organ. Long accustomed to the sound. In general, I really like the lower octaves of Roland, but the middle (small, first and second octaves) of Casio to my taste sounds nicer and more accurate.
3. Headphone volume (regardless of headphones) is very quiet, maximum volume corresponds to approximately 20-30% of Casio's volume. When I play headphones at full volume, I still hear a working TV in the room. But there is enough volume through the speakers, there is even a minimum margin. But at high volume the sound is noticeably distorted, therefore it is not recommended to set more than four points out of five.
3. Music Stand. A piece of black plastic, inserted into the slot, in terms of the quality of performance, resembles the back covers from the first mobile phones. Included are 4 rubber limiter stickers, without which the iPad will immediately roll onto the floor.
4. Adjustments and control.On both pianos, they are performed by pressing the button and simultaneously pressing a key on the keyboard. But Roland has no sound alerts. Casio informs you with a sound that you have changed the setting. When it reached the maximum or minimum adjustment - stops picking. There is silence on Roland. Fuck you understand what you changed and how many levels each setting has.
5. In the complete set there is no Russian instruction. Pedal-button (DP-2), which comes in the kit, immediately to release - buy DP-10 or pedals with a stand.

Comment: All my life I played the mechanical piano. I bought a Casio AP-460 a year ago and immediately noticed the electronic flavor, but this is a given of all digital pianos. In general, everything was fine, but the keys were very loud. For a year they got loose and began to knock even harder. It even went so far as to practice one night, and the next morning a neighbor came from below and complained that I had been pounding drums all night and would not let her sleep. It's time to buy a piano in a country house. I decided to buy something from another brand, in the hope that it wouldn't knock so loudly. After listening to thousands of videos on YouTube, I stopped at the Roland FP-30. The keyboard is really quieter and clearer in responsiveness, the game is smoother. In general, I would say that Roland sounds more expressive and bass, and Casio is more accurate and louder (but the sound is more ragged).

SUMMARY: If you take a piano for a house, proceeding from a budget of about 50-60 thousand, I would still recommend Casio, it is much more beautiful, and in fact with the only drawback - very hard pounding keys. Roland has a lot of controversial points - low headphone volume, poor appearance, no midi output. But he has a great keyboard - the instrument does exactly what you expect from it, and the music literally flows. With Casio, it’s harder to achieve a level play, especially on the Modern setting, which sounds most pleasant (the default Concert sounds dull, as if “in the nose”).
As for the price, I took Roland for 43 thousand, but even this is quite expensive, and the recommended price of 55-60 is, in my opinion, very high, so I’ll put the top three (since you cannot put three and a half). Casio adequate in terms of price / quality, I would put a solid four.

Advantages: Excellent keyboard, rich, rich Roland sound, which is not boring. The tool is very well made. Price, took for 47500 p.

Comment: Absolutely the best tool in your niche! Naturally compared with Yamaha p 115, Yamaha is a good instrument with a beautiful Yamachowsky bright timbre, but compared to Roland, the sound is more plastic and quickly boring, there are no such overtones and depth, there is no richness between the string resonances, there is no such deep, velvety percussion sound of hammers.
On Roland you get a buzz from the timbre, where each note as a masterpiece? I want to listen and listen! I played on different instruments, at the moment in my studio there is Korg m3 (module) and Yamaha, but the sound of the Fono Roland will be cooler! Very rich on the piano sounds classic. Due to the setting Brillians can make both bright and softer timbre sound. You can add ambient. It makes no sense to talk about casio, there is just a plastic sound with an incomprehensible torn sound and an oak keyboard, something expressive to play is simply impossible.