Inray-
Thanks for the excellent/fantastic info you provided (unbiased also). I have an organ and piano background and I suppose that sound is a very personal thing but I don't mind the Triton Piano PCM board. However, I hate playing these sounds from an unweighted keyboard (piano sound that is) although I haven't really got any choice at the moment!

Does the new XV series have all the factory patches of the JV2080 and JD990 or 'the best of' patches plus a whole heap of new ones?

What is the basic difference between the K2600 and K2500 besides the fact that the 2600 comes with the KDFX option installed?

I do alot of backing tracks for singers as well as whatever else comes along from rock to 'Slovenian' folk music.

My midi gear consists of-
Korg Triton with Piano, SCSI and MOSS boards.
Korg Z1 with 18 voice expansion.
Korg T3EX.
Korg DW8000 (this should have become a classic!).
Korg TR Rack.
2 Roland JV1080's (but I wont to sell one to get either a good priced JV2080 or save a bit and get the XV3080- should I just bite the bullet and get the XV instead of a bargain priced JV2080 now that their price will most probably drop?).
Roland MDC1 Dance expansion module.
Korg Wavestation SR.
Korg Wavestation AD. (I love these 2 beasts!).
Yamaha O3D Digital Mixer.

I hope to check out the XV3080 ASAP as I don't think I'll need all the extra features of the 5080 (plus 'cost' also comes into it!).

Thanks once again- Korgasm.