The absolute best keyboard amp for nuanced live digital piano??
Whoops, should have posted this in the live sound category, but anyway... I have a Roland RD 150 digital piano which sounds good through the head phones. I'd like to be able to hear that nuanced dynamic naturalistic sound when playing out, BUT...
I went to guitar center to try out the supposedly best options in the way of keyboard amps, as well as some PA systems that some people online recommended for keyboard, and was shocked and confused to find that the sound of this equipment (in the thousands of dollars) for naturalistic piano was completely unusable. I have finicky ears but even the guitar center guy had to admit that these things sounded bad to an absurd, unbelievable degree-I mean distorted, abrasive, unbalanced throughout the keyboard's range, with no possibilty of nuanced tone or dynamics. I play singer songwriter stuff in the style of Elton John and Billy Joel and need to get across subtly expressive piano playing and not just pounding. BTW I'd love to know what somebody like Elton would use as I hear he uses digital pianos live these days. Any advice, recommendations or just sympathy for this appalling situation much appreciated.
Also, that's just talking about what I would hear live. Any tips for getting good sound that the audience can hear? Seems like people trying for naturalistic sound from dig pianos in smaller clubs sound tinny. Why should it be so hard to get acceptable sounds from a dig piano anyway, why such a discrepancy between the headphones and what's coming through the amp??