Well... I thought this was all about people like meanotherscott wrote:As they say, not everything is about you.
I was close to buying a used NP3 this winter. But after reading about all the knocking key problems, I hesitated. Also a local music store told me that they had problems with a piano they had sold...
So - I thought I would wait, and that perhaps in a year or so, there would be a NP4. Then suddenly the news about NP4 came around easter.
To me the new features in NP4 is of little value. At the moment the price of a new NP3 is down from 23000 to 18000 NOK, and NP4 will be 25000. But I am willing to pay the extra for NP4 just to be sure that there will be no knocking key problems. I know that if I get an NP3 I will spend a lot of energy listening carefully and worrying about any key problems, whatever s/n.
So I thought that perhaps they released NP4 to get people like me buy a new piano right away (But of course - I see the the other reasons - like standardization across products etc.)
PS! I know there are a lot of happy NP3 users without any problems that we do not hear much from in this forum.