I agree that music and sound synthesis is a very subjective matter but with memory prices plummeting so quickly why do they skip on sample ROM chips?I mean for instance,the PSR740 has 250 odd main sounds stuffed into 12MB of wave ROM.On my PC I have a bass sound that occupies 12MB on its' own and believe me there is a huge difference.I currently use 50 sounds that take up 140MB(16bit at 48KHZ,no looping) and the quality is exceptional
but I have yet to hear any keyboard with this quality!I would prefer a keyboard have say one good acoustic instead of maybe 12 with the available memory dedicated to that sample only,thus giving a more realistic timbre/colouration!In the real world I have no use for 700 odd XG sounds.Give me drums,bass,piano,sax and guitar compressed into
a reasonable sized ROM and I would say most people would be happy!Forget the rest unless thats' your thing.

best regards...jock