Hi Trident,
the piano I like best to date ( for my omb styles )is http://www.guraydere.com/soundfonts/sfdetails.aspx?kat=1
Clavinova 2 (7.5mb :24.5 mb)
I've managed to tweak it a bit get it sounding much like the grand piano sound in my clavinova clp170, so much so, hubby couldn't tell whether I was using the font or the clav for the style.

Hard to say whether it sounds better or worse than my soundfonts. Sound is pretty subjective. ie
I found a midifile of Vangelis's Antartica ( one of my favourite pieces of music)

I tried it with all the fonts I've managed to collect ( free & commercial)
synergi
papalmedia
sgm128
another xg
provitamin etc

the piece sounded different on all of them.
Some played some instruments better than others, whereas one may shine in woodwind , it was poor in strings. Beauty of the font system is, I can replace the sounds I don't like , with ones that I do. ie I replaced the existing piano in the gm font I'm using with the clavinova one I mentioned above.
Personally I'll probably end up staying with soundfonts, mainly because of the flexibility.

Don't know whether you're set up for using soundfonts, but one way of doing an ab comparison would be to download Synthfont
( sounfont midi player)http://www.synthfont.com/
and a soundfont like sgm128 http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?page=sdet&id=5038
best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trident:
[b]Rikki,


[This message has been edited by rikkisbears (edited 06-11-2005).]