I know that when writing that, many people are going to be upset after BUT honesty I must write what I felt when trying the XV 3080 and XV 88 at Music mania in Paris ; Went 2 days : tested the two instruments for more than 2 hours...

So : Drums are very good. Better than old JV. No question. Analog like sounds kill (mostly super jupiter).
Steel guitar is a joke. I mean I get much better with the SESSION card or POP card.

The XV piano in basic rom is improved compared with the JV series BUT, lacks many harmonics and realism when playing after C5. 5i compared with FP9 piano which is really fantastic).

Audio Converters are really better than JV XP series except with JV 2080 : OK there’s still a difference but a little one...
Reverb is really improved.

So What Am I going to do ? I probably buy the XV 5080 with the SRX piano card and will extend it to 128M° to read akai and Roland Samples.

But sincerely, this is not a revolution compared with a JV 2080. I think it’s really too expensive campared with what it can do (ok 128 voices...NOT 128 note polyphony ! ! !).

I tried the K2600 W kurzweil with full options.
Sound is brighter, may be a little more dynamic than some sounds of XV BUT XV 3080 and XV 88 are killer because less expensive and really more rom sounds...

To finish, I really believe that XV 5080 is great for all its options. I wouldn’t buy an XV 3080 or XV 88 : can’t read samples, only 2 ports for SRX cards., no COSM effects.

Best regards to all

Enjoy.