electr0 wrote: Should they make the best hammer action keybed there is, or should they just make it better (move away from Fatar)?
How large impact does a wishlist have on Clavia?
I think Clavia is pretty good at following forums and social media and trying to satisfy user needs... in their own very unique way
That said, the hard truth is that there's really no chance of "moving away from Fatar".
The only way to do that would be to build their proprietary actions, but that's simply not feasible for a small company, the only ones able to do that are the REALLY big players (Yamaha, Roland, Casio, Korg and Kawai), who have the numbers to recover the costs of developing and producing their own actions, often based on their own expertise in building real acoustic pianos.
Everybody else, even relatively big names like Kurzweil, Nord and Hammond, rely on a third-party supplier, who 99% of the times is the market leader Fatar.
That said, I think the real question is: "Should Nord provide the best possible Fatar piano action (presently the TP-40 Wood) at the expense of increased cost, weight and reduced portability?
Let's not forget that Nord keyboards have a focus for live use and consequently weight, size and portability have always been among the first priorities.
My very personal view is that it may be worth it: in this way they would give the best possible piano-playing experience to piano purists, and at the same time differentiate the Nord Piano line from the Stage and Electro (now I think that they are a bit cannibalizing each other)