Ian... there isn't SUPPOSED to be a guiro... The G70 has a good one, it is just Yamaha's f*ckup that you can hear one. It ain't in the file. Even when Yamaha get it wrong, you still think they are right, don'tcha? (Nice try, no banana!)

Point is, it's not SUPPOSED to sound great when you play an old MIDI file into it... it's supposed to sound like what the writer made it sound like. THEN you are supposed to easily make your own adjustments. To what YOU like, not what the factory MAKES you have to like. The Audya, for instance, can't make any adjustments at all, hardly, in OS2 version. PSR's and Tyros have to have a computer and external, third party software to make much adjustment. All the rest make doing this simple task an ordeal compared to the G70. And it is a task you HAVE to do to each and every SMF if you want it to sound its' best.

Overall, listen again to Fran's FIRST, lightly edited version. For an over four year old, discontinued model that you have little respect for, I think it holds up VERY well, and compared to the Audya, $1500 MORE than it's original street price, it makes the Audya look like an overpriced boondoggle.