As a Tyros2 owner I have to agree the Fantom to me sounds great as a refined piano sound and I also prefer the more mellow tone of the PA800 in the way it's presented. I agree with
Diki's assessment of the Ty2's default by comparison- brittle etc. In the mp3 you can hear a harsh background metallic ring accompanying it - [which you can also get to hear playing the voice on the Ty2 itself darn it!]
Outside of the extremes, trying to get into too much detail with comparisons of default voices can be pretty fruitless IMO.
eg.if someone says yours is too bright or muddier, or is less expressive than mine I can change that by editing. But when I start to get too smug he can go away and presumably do similar edits on his KB so where does that get us.
What voices ever do sound their best out of the box I wonder?

I made a customised piano based on the T2 Grand designed to take away some of that brashness, give a mellower and more delicate feel when playing plus many other detailed edits. You can listen to it at the link below.I used the Purgatory Creek (PCrk) midi to play the Ty2 as a slave KB so I could set my own registration in place and have the voice played.
Same bit rate as Purgatory Creek's original mp3 for the Ty2 standard grand, which I've included in the zip for direct comparison.
http://tinyurl.com/3belk9

There's no intention to rate it with the top piano sounds, the point I'd make is it's also valid to form opinions about a KB based on the editability of the voices not just how the defaults sound.

Here's hoping the difference comes across!

John

[This message has been edited by jwyvern (edited 09-05-2007).]