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Digital Piano shootouts are done using a single MIDI file, from which an MP3/Wav is created on each digital piano. They are then compared for their closeness to a real piano and then rated accordingly. This is because digital pianos have wave samples using which they reproduce a real sound from binary data. As sampling = compromise on quality, it all really boils down to how close are the wave samples of the digital piano, to a real piano. Better the sampling rate, better the quality e.g. 44Khz(CD quality) sampling is better than 22Khz(Audio Cassette quality).