?Casio PX-S1100 Digital Piano Review & Unboxing (Casio PX-S1000 Improved)?

0:00 – Intro
1:07 – Playing Demo
2:03 – Overview
3:28 – Unboxing
4:56 – Piano Sound
16:15 – Other Piano Sounds
25:26 – Smart Scaled Hammer Action
31:18 – Bluetooth & Features

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Hello and welcome to the Merriam Pianos YouTube channel. We’ve finally gotten our hands on the brand new Casio Privia PX-S1100, so we’re excited to review that for you today. It’s been out for several months, but we’ve only just now gotten one, so we’ll be doing an unboxing too.

The PX-S1100 is the follow up to the popular PX-S1000, which has been one of the best selling portable digital pianos available for under $1,000 CAD for a couple of years now. We’re going to do a deep dive to see exactly what’s been improved with the 1100.

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First Impressions

When we think back to the PX-S1000, we remember feeling a little bit underwhelmed with the sound when playing it without either the Hall Simulator or Surround Sound mode settings engaged.

After spending a few minutes with the PX-S1100, that isn’t the case here – the raw grand piano patches are a pleasure to play without those other modes engaged. Let’s dive deeper into the sound.

Piano Sound

Casio has changed the speaker box design and configuration in an attempt to produce a better overall dynamic range. We would say they definitely pulled it off.

They’re now also including a free Bluetooth adapter in the box, so in addition to Bluetooth Audio, the S1100 now has Bluetooth MIDI as well. With the latest version of the Chordana App, you can essentially control all of the features of the S1100 right from your Smart Device like being able to edit the piano sound to your liking and actually save your presets to the app.

The different reverb presets with adjustable depth are still present with the Hall Simulator, and these generally sound very good.

The Acoustic Simulator makes a return, and this is the synthesis engine on top of the AiR sound source that adds extra parameters to the sound like damper resonance and string resonance, Polyphony is strong once again at 192 notes, and we’ve got 16 watts of speaker power.

Other Sounds

The PX-S1100 gives you 18 total sounds to work with. There’s a few other acoustic piano patches that are totally functional,

Casio’s electric pianos are usually quite nice, and that’s the case here with a very solid Rhodes sound, as is the Wurly sound.

All of the other misc sounds like harpsichord, vibraphone, and the strings sounds especially, are very consistent.

Features

Like the S1000, the S1100 is on the light side in terms of functionality. There is a basic recorder and you can record straight to a USB key, though on-board MIDI recorders are becoming a little bit redundant in general at this point.

There’s also some pre-loaded classical works, and basics like metronome, transpose and some alternate playing modes are present once again.

Action

Casio’s Smart Scaled Hammer Action Keyboard is present here once again. Still, we’ll give our fresh impressions of this action.

To start, there’s a very nice texture on both the white and black keys that absorb moisture, so the keys themselves are comfortable to play even if your hands get sweaty.

The keys are in the middle in terms of the weighting, quite similar to Kawai’s RHCII action. The repetition speed is good, and despite the double sensor, it’s actually very sensitive due to Casio’s ‘Smart’ technology.

And even though the PX-S1100 is physically very light as an instrument, this action feels reinforced and solid to play. It’s very mechanically reliable, with a low incidence of warranty claims.

Closing Thoughts

The S1100 includes a basic footswitch in the box. We’d recommend upgrading to either a better sustain pedal, or the optional floating 3-pedal unit from Casio. Casio also makes a matching stand if you’ll be using your S1100 in a more stationary setting.

It’s also available in Black, White and Red – the red is especially sharp actually. There’s no hard copy manual, but you can download one for free from Casio’s website.

The S110 includes discreet ¼” line outputs, so that’s a huge plus for anyone looking to do any gigging.

All in all, the improvements over the S1000 are notable, with a definite all around improvement with regards to the sound, and the free Bluetooth adapter is a nice touch too.

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