Dexibell
VIVO H10
$5,999
Dexibell VIVO H10 review: a home console built around a microphone input and 32-bit float recording
Dexibell VIVO H10V review: the H10 engine moved into a tall cabinet with eleven drivers
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| Factor | This Piano | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | — | 0.5 |
| Lesson Function | No | +0 |
| App Connectivity | Yes | +1.8 |
| Bluetooth MIDI | Yes | +1 |
| Recording | Yes | +0.8 |
| Practice Basics (Metronome / Transpose / Layer-Split) | Yes | +0.6 |
| Stand Included | Yes | +0.5 |
| Damper Pedal Included | Yes | +0.4 |
| Preset Songs | 0 | +0 |
| Sound Variety | 125 sounds | +0.6 |
| Factor | This Piano | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | — | 1.0 |
| Headphone Jacks | 2 | +2.2 |
| Headphone Type | 6.3mm, 3.5mm | +1.4 |
| Headphone Optimization | No | +0 |
| Bluetooth Audio | Yes | +0.8 |
| Line Out | Yes | +0.4 |
| Speaker Mute with Headphones | Yes | +0.7 |
| Key Action Quietness | Fatar TP/400 Wood | +0.1 |
| Factor | This Piano | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | — | 5.0 |
| Weight | 103 kg | -3 |
| Width | 1444 mm | -0.5 |
| Battery | No | +0 |
| Foldable | No | +0 |
| Key Count | 88 keys | +0 |
| Factor | This Piano | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Key Action Quality | Fatar TP/400 Wood (grade 9) | +5.4 |
| Key Count | 88 keys | +1.5 |
| Polyphony | 320 notes | +1.5 |
| Sound Modeling | T2L (True to Life) | +0.5 |
| Key Surface | wood | +0.3 |
This Dexibell VIVO H10V review reads the published specifications from a comparison-first point of view: touch, sound, practice fit, value, and limits.
The VIVO H10V is the upright-shaped member of Dexibell's H10 family, shown at NAMM in January 2024 under the maker's own description of an upright that becomes a Grand Up-Right. Dexibell states that the H10, H10MG and H10V share identical sound generation, tonal quality, microphone input, controls and hybrid keyboard, so the case for this version rests entirely on the cabinet and how it projects, not on the engine or the touch.
The H10V is easy to judge because Dexibell has removed the ambiguity: the sound generation, the microphone input, the controls and the hybrid keyboard are the same as on the console H10, and the difference is a taller, deeper cabinet with eleven drivers instead of eight. If the room is large and the instrument is meant to be heard across it, that difference is real and the reason to choose this version. If most practice happens through the supplied headphones, the console makes the stronger case at less weight and less depth. Against flagship consoles from the large Japanese makers it trades dealer coverage and resale recognition for a microphone input with effects, 32-bit float recording to USB, user-loadable sounds and that eleven-driver array, and whether that trade is worth making depends on how much of it will actually be used.
The Fatar TP-400 W is a wood and hybrid hammer action with 88 weighted keys, triple contact sensing, escapement, and synthetic ivory and ebony surfaces. Triple contact matters for repeated notes, since the third sensor lets a key be restruck before it has fully returned. Escapement reproduces the small notch felt near the bottom of an acoustic key. The important point for anyone shopping across the range is that this is the same keyboard fitted to the H10 and the H10MG, so the touch is not what separates the three cabinets.
Someone who has already settled on the H10 platform and wants the largest acoustic output of the three cabinets in a domestic room, in an upright footprint rather than a mini grand. The microphone input with effects and the 32-bit float recording also suit a player who accompanies a singer or captures ideas without a separate interface. It is not a first instrument, and anyone who will spend most of their time in headphones should weigh whether the extra drivers are worth paying for.
This assessment reads published specifications rather than a session with the instrument. The T2L engine blends sampled material with modelling and offers 125 sounds, three of them PLATINUM voices, with SF2 files loadable on top so the palette is not fixed at purchase. Sympathetic resonance simulation runs alongside the progressive damper pedal. What changes here against the console version is dispersion rather than tone: three binaural mid and high drivers are added above the two woofers and six near-field drivers, in a taller and deeper case, which is a design aimed at filling a room rather than at reaching the player alone.
Everything below the cabinet is shared with the rest of the H10 series, and Dexibell says so plainly, which makes the buying question unusually clean: pay for projection, or take the console and keep the same engine and keys. The recording format is worth a second look, because 48 kHz 32-bit float straight to a USB stick, with overdub, removes a step that normally needs an interface and a computer. The metronome takes tap tempo, and Layer, Split, 4 Hands, Layer plus Split and a three-part layer mode are all available. Three pedals and a bench come with the instrument, along with DX HF7 headphones.
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| Keys | 88 |
| Key Action | Fatar TP/400 Wood |
| Polyphony | 320 notes |
| Sounds | 125 |
| Weight | 103 kg |
| Speakers | 112W (×11) |
| Bluetooth | Audio + MIDI |
| Key Surface | Wood |
| Sound Modeling | T2L (True to Life) |
| Headphone Jacks | 2 |
| Headphone Type | 6.3mm, 3.5mm |
| Headphone Optimization | No |
| USB MIDI | Yes |
| Line Out | Yes |
| Lesson Function | No |
| App Connectivity | Yes |
| Recording | Yes |
| Metronome | Yes |
| Transpose | Yes |
| Layer / Split | Yes |
| Preset Songs | 0 |
| Battery | No |
| Foldable | No |
| Dimensions (W×D×H) | 1444×592×1150 mm |
| Stand Included | Yes |
| Pedal Included | Yes |
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A sturdy X-stand or furniture-style stand is essential if one isn't included.
Closed-back headphones with good bass response make practice sessions more enjoyable.
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An adjustable-height bench helps maintain proper posture during long practice sessions.
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