The Yamaha P-225 is an 88-key portable digital piano designed for both beginners and advanced players, offering the authentic feel and sound of a grand piano in a lightweight, compact form. It features the Graded Hammer Compact (GHC) keyboard action, which provides a realistic, weighted touch with heavier keys in the lower register and lighter ones in the upper, mimicking an acoustic piano. The P-225 delivers the rich, dynamic sound of Yamaha’s flagship CFX concert grand piano, enhanced by Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) Lite technology that recreates the complex string resonance of a real grand piano in real time.
Key features include:
24 built-in voices, including piano, electric piano, organ, strings, and pads.
192-note polyphony for seamless, note-rich playing.
Bluetooth audio for wireless streaming from smartphones or tablets.
USB to HOST (MIDI & Audio) connectivity for recording and music production.
Smart Pianist app compatibility (iOS/Android) for intuitive control via smartphone or tablet.
Half-damper pedal support for expressive sustain control.
Compact dimensions (52.2" W x 5.1" H x 10.7" D) and lightweight design (25.6 lbs / 11.6 kg), making it ideal for home, studio, or on-the-go use.
Available in black (P225B) and white (P225WH) finishes, the P-225 is often sold in bundles with a stand, pedals, and accessories. It is priced around $750, with some retailers offering it for $650 in select deals. The model is a direct successor to the popular P-125, featuring improved sound, a more compact design, and updated connectivity, while maintaining Yamaha’s renowned build quality and playability.
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My experience with Yamaha P225 - far from the best : piano
My experience with Yamaha P225 - far from the best
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I have purchased P225 and have played for just over a year now, and I thought I'd share my experience with you.
For thos who don't know, P225 is kind of a successor to Yamaha's P125 or P145, with smaller size and, therefore lighter weight. And as I am about to write, this is pretty much the only imporvement that I felt there was with this newer model.
I will be making comparison with Roland's FP30X because that's what I owned and so I can give my personal experience with it, but also it is around the same price range as P225 so it's a decent comparator.
Sound Quality
The sound quality is... okay. I almost never play with the speakers (I live in a flat), so be aware that I am referring to the sound quality through the headphones. Before I bought P225, with my FP30X I just used a headphone cable (3.5mm) to hook my sony headphones directly to the keyboard which also has a 3.5mm headphone jack. After a bit of messing around with the sound preference the piano sounded just fine.
With P225 though, it was a lot worse.
First, P225 doesn't have a 3.5mm jack, only a stereo (6.35mm) jack. So immediately I had to spend extra money to get the adapter. However, as I found out, P225 sounds so terrible on sony headphones that it is straight up unplayable.
Eventually I got a monitoring headphone from Sennheiser (around 70GBP, or 88USD), which did sound better, but I still preferred the sound of sony headphones with FP30X. Especially the middle range (roughly from middle C to an octave above), the sound was less clear, and also slightly quieter.
Maybe if you have a better pair of monitoring headphone it could sound better, but the fact that you need to spend that extra money just to get an okay sound, I don't know about that.
Sound Customisation
This is one of the thing that really, really annoyed me. There are 2 ways that you can customise the piano sound with P225 - connect with phone or tablet via USB (NOT BLUETOOTH) or via shortcuts on the keysboard.
With regards to the first method, you'll have to buy a type B to type C (or whatever your phone/tablet has) cable to connect with the Yamaha's piano app, which, again, is extra money.
And even for the second option, unless you have the manual open next to you, there is absolutely no instruction on how to customise any sounds, making your life even more difficult.
Now with regards to the actual customisation - it is not the best either.
The main things that you can change about the sound are:
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Ambience - how much the sound resonates
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Key touch - how hard you have to press to make a sound
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Room - what kind of room the piano is in (concert hall, club, etc..)
If you want to make a sound that you like with just those, good luck with that. You can't change the brilliance, and the key touch only comes in 3 levels, of which 1 is literally no key touch i.e. no matter how hard you press the same volume comes out.
With FP30X although you'll have to use the App (which works with bluetooth btw), but you get a whole lot more customisation with your sound, so that even with my Sony headphones I could make it sound decent enough.
Keyboard Action
One of the interesting things about P225 is that the hammer they used in this model is actually "worse" than the one in P145. The reason I suppose is because they couldn't put the original hammer action in the smaller body of P225, so they had to come up with a more compact action.
For myself this was not much of a problem and it felt alright, but if your playing involve a lot of pressing the deeper parts (i.e. closer to the body of piano) of the keyboard, you might feel more resistance.
So that's my experience with P225. As you can see it's not the best, but after listening to it so much I've kind of gotten used to the sound, but when I go back to my family's house to play FP30X, I can't help but regret getting P225 over FP30X, which is almost better in every single aspects.
I think these are what most people buying digital piano want to know, but if anyone has any question about P225 (or FP30X) I am more than happy to answer your questions :)