From what I know, SP/DIF comes as standard but the ADAT and MLAN interfaces are optional.

Also SCSI is standard on XV5080 but an option on Triton Rack- Korg should include this as a standard feature!

The XV5080 IMHO is more powerful as a straight syntheizer (that's not to say that the Korg is lacking, it's just not as deep). However, the Korg wins out in the fx department that's for sure (but the XV's fx capabilities are also very good).

Re- polyphony- the Triton rack has 60 notes but remember each program takes up only up to 2 oscillators leaving still 30 notes of polyphony per program in dual oscillator mode. Many of the Roland's patch use at least 3 or 4 oscillators (from what I've noticed) so the polyphony issue is much less than say in the days of Trinity verses JV1080 4 years ago!

The Triton Rack comes with a 3.5" floppy drive which I think is great as well as the song play function. Also it has up to 200 'multies' as opposed to the 64 'performances' on the 5080 for selecting multi/timbral setups. Here I must ask a question- does the 5080 lose it's sample data each time it's switched off? The Roland comes with a 'smartmedia' card storage system which stores alot of data for 'alot' more money' than a floppy.

All in all, both these units sound awesome and have plusses and minuses. They are both well catered for re- expandability but add the MOSS board to the Triton Rack and it could be argued that the Korg might beat the Roland in terms of synthesis power?????

As for myself, I read about the Triton Rack on Harmony Central last night and already started thinking of what I should sell to buy it!!!! But then after the 'technolust' adrenalin died down- I became more reasonable and thought- well I've got the rack sounds in the keyboard and about the biggest thing I'd be missing is the 8x expansion- I wish the standard Triton had at least 4 slots so I could add the Dance extreme and vintage cards now available.

I could easily see Korg bringing out a 'revamped' version of the Triton keyboard next year with all the functions of the rack plus the touchscreen and sequencer- then I might think of upgrading!!!!

PS- Oh no- the technolust bug is hitting me again!!!!!!! Cheers.

PPS- I own both the Triton and XV3080 and they really do complement each other very nicely!!