A lot of styles and even whole arranger ROM sections are voiced for the continental EU market. And one thing you'll notice on much of their older popular recorded music is a penchant for a large 'beerhall' kind of sound. Probably because many of those venues are still in use, and the majority of arranger players tend to be, let's just be kind and say 'older' (!), the arrangers from over there tend to have ROM styles drenched in reverb.

In fact, when the G70 was first released in the US, there was an almost universal dislike for how wet they all were. Few people looked past this issue, and the poor thing had a pretty rough time of it. You never get a second chance to make a first impression!

I also dislike the modern trend to over compress and EQ the things. TBH, most of them are made radically better (IF you are trying to sound live) by switching the compressor off and rebalancing the styles without them.

I'm pretty sure that if anyone made an arranger that sounded 'perfect' to me OOTB, no-one else would buy it!

BTW, Roland's have been using drum samples from their class leading V-Drums products for years, now. It is one of the reasons they sound so live. If it's good enough for a drummer, it's good enough for me! You'll also notice that most of the V-Drum kits' samples have a bit of the drum room included in the sample. This is what, IMHO, helps them sound live... You can still add more reverb to certain parts of the kit (just like they do in studios), but there is always that 'air' around them.

I simply don't understand why Yamaha don't get this. They also make very good E-drum kits, but you don't hear anything from THEM on their arrangers. Yet they make a point, in their S950 promo literature and videos, to emphasize that their audio styles WERE recorded in live rooms, how this makes them 'better', and you can hear it (in fact, a bit much half the time!). So it's not like Yamaha aren't aware of how the room helps make the drum sound. But so far, very little of it has made its way into the KITS in the S and T series.

Once Yamaha fall in with Roland and Korg, perhaps we'll finally get the 'live' sounding Yamaha so many of us want. Don't worry... they'll leave in all the legacy kits for those that want to sound like a CD, but samples with 'air' is, IMO, the way forward, NOT audio styles.