Hi KIKO...

I had 2080 last two years and i was very pleased with it. But the new XVs are far better than anything Roland build until now. Even the same JV expansion card sound somehow better on XV due to the new hires A/D converters and excellent s/n ratio on the XV sound circuit.

The 5080 sample playback format is similar to S700 but with some minnor differences. The new DSP logic and algorithms are different so the sounds need that convertion. It is mostly a clean convertion and i found no clicks or noice on the converted sounds.
Instead of that i found converted samples sound somewhat crisper than on S700.

The piano sound on SESSION JV card has nothing to do with new SRX piano card. The new sound is on of the best i ever heard from a sample playback synth. The SESSION card's concert piano sounds to me like old Casio piano now. If anyone needs exceptional piano sounds (grands, concert) then he must buy XV + piano SRX card.

More later