But, as you state, the AMOUNT of wave ROM has very little to do with the quality of sounds in them. It's kind of like looking at cars and judging them SOLELY on weight, never-mind how big the engine is......

What we REALLY need to do, rather than worry too much about ROM size, is really start to put the pressure on the arranger manufacturers to improve sample RAM load times. If that could be brought down to a few seconds, rather than a few minutes, many more would actually use the feature, and an arranger's internal ROM would be a moot point.

One thing that used to concern people a lot more 10 or 15 years ago was the 'latency' of a keyboard, especially when firing multiple stacked voices. Nobody talks about it much any more, except VSTi users, but there are STILL many keyboards out there that you can't stack two or three stereo patches together (especially when they are all spikey, percussive type sounds like clavs and mallets), play 4 or 5 note chords and not hear a fair bit of zippering, or flam-ing.

Try it with your arranger - stack as many tones together as your arranger will allow, and try to play repeated chords as fast as you can. Does it still sound tight, or do you hear a little 'smear'? You would be surprised, and yet this is something no-one talks about, manufacturers NEVER tout it as a plus, yet it affects how well the keyboard responds to your playing, something that we should care about the MOST!