After having spent some time at the music store in cologne, I have fallen for the Korg SP 250, which has a great keyboard and really quite good sounds.
One alternative I had heard sound samples of was the GEM PRP800, highly credited among musicians for its realistic sound engine. Yup, you haven't misread: It has a sound rendering engine (called DRAKE), and features the sounds of a 7 Foot Steinway and Sons and Fazioli F308 grand piano, among others. I really liked that sound, but the price (899 EUR list price) was a bit off bounds.
Recently a used one of them popped up on ebay, and so I thought to myself, why not give it a try? So I got it for a total of 462 EUR , a deal I won't come to regret so soon. It's really an awesome sounding digital piano, the best I've heard so far (which is probably due to the price range I usually check).
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