🎹Casio Celviano AP-470 vs Roland F701 Digital Piano Comparison - Stunning Grand Piano Sounds🎹

Описание: Piano Sound: 5:57
Piano Action: 31:01
Piano Features: 34:50

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Hello and thanks for joining us at the Merriam Pianos YouTube channel. Today’s video comes after a request in the comment section of one of our other videos as we’ll be seeing how the Casio AP470 stacks up to the Roland F701.

These two instruments are priced very closely together (only $100 apart in Canada) and are targeted at the same part of the market, so it’s definitely a very logical comparison to make.

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Piano Overview

Both the Casio AP470 and Roland F701 have emerged as fairly popular options over the past 6-12 months in the upper end of the mid range digital piano market.

Now, the Casio AP470 is older than the F701, so right away, we noticed a generational difference between these two pianos. The replacement to the AP470, whenever that comes, will probably be a better comparison to the F701.

The specs sheets look pretty close, but playing them side-by-side, the F701 ends up being a more dynamic instrument to play on. Now let’s dive into the specifics.

Piano Sound

The AP470 has 2 main piano tones. It uses Casio’s AiR Sound Source, which is a sample based engine recorded at 4 velocity layers. It features 256 notes of polyphony, and 40 watts of speaker power.

The F701 uses Roland’s SuperNATURAL piano engine, with 256 notes of polyphony, and a lower rated power output of 24 watts.

Often what differentiates a piano experience if all other things are considered equal, is how the tone generator simulates all of the subtle things that surround the tone itself, like damper resonance, cabinet resonance, soundboard type etc. The AP470 does a good job of this, but Roland’s SuperNATURAL, especially with the new BMC chip present here, has more of these elements, and offers the user a ton of control over said elements.

When it comes to the speaker performance, the AP470’s 4 speaker system (which can be altered via the speaker lid) generates so much treble, to the point of being too much, but this does get better if the lid is more closed or closed entirely. There’s some odd signal balance issues going on here, but we have to note that we have never observed this on any of their other instruments.

The F701, while not as powerful, doesn’t have any of these issues, and sounds much more balanced.

In terms of the on-board selection of tones, the AP470 has 22 tones.The F701 has a robust 324 on-board tones, more than 10x more. Now, many of the sounds on the F701 are General MIDI 2, so as far as the core sounds are concerned, they are closer in number, but the F701 still has more. course,

In general, both pianos offer a quality selection of non-piano tones.

Piano Action

The touch of these two instruments isn’t by any means off on totally different ends of the spectrum. The F701 uses the PHA4 with escapement and a triple sensor. The AP470 has a triple sensor, no escapement, but has a very nice weighting.

In a wide range of playing settings, many people aren’t going to have a huge preference for one action or the other. We tend to gravitate towards the PHA4 on this channel, but we actually think the AP470’s might be better for classical music.

This is really a story of personal preference at the end of the day. These are both quality actions with very similar repetition speeds.

Piano Features

The F701 features both Bluetooth MIDI and Audio, which is very nice as you can stream music directly to your F701, and of course, connect to apps. It has dual headphone outputs, USB Type A and B,

The F701 also has MIDI and Audio on-board recording, some lesson options, and compatibility with Roland’s new Piano Every Day app.

The AP470 has USB Type B, dual headphone jacks and MIDI and Audio on-board recording, but no line outputs and no Bluetooth.

Both pianos are available in multiple finishes, and include a bench, music rest and cabinet.

Summary

The F701 is slightly more expensive, but it really does take advantage of the latest technological advances in the industry. The AP470 is still a solid instrument, but lacks the warmth of the F701, and some of the extra features.

Thanks for watching!