Stay away from M-Audio keystation pro88 or its family. The weighted keys certainly won't cut it, not even close to a real piano. Moreover, they're just midi controller, means, no sound at all.

The best piano touch keyboard I've come across is the Yamaha S08/S90, it's certainly super expensive (S08 brand new RM4000/S90 RM9000~RM10000, you can ask for discount anyway).

Take my advice, get an acoustic upright piano if you only want to play piano. Digital piano or keyboards certainly won't give what an acoustic piano can do. As you know, the very same piano will sounds different under 2 different pairs of hands.

But if you really want a digital piano, maybe the casio digital piano will do as I find the weighted keys actually quite nice plus they wont' break your bank, but the sound...Ugh...

If TS can afford a high quality digital piano, might as well buy a decent upright piano...

BTW I'm a midi programmer hence I never really play on high end yamaha (or whatever brand) digital piano, that's why I only speak upon those which I've came across.

This post has been edited by pigcat: Feb 13 2008, 03:28 PM

Your budget is fine, and well fit into many good choices. It'll be hard if you're looking at RM2k~RM3k. Pay a visit to music store or something to play around with some...