Thanks, that did help. I just would hate to spend over a hundred bucks on something and be disappointed. That's a lot of money! Maybe I don't have a trained enough ear...but I really don't hear anything THAT bad about the brass on the XP. I hear an aweful lot that the brass sucks on there, but I guess I just don't hear where it sucks, know what I mean? Maybe you could enlighten me a little. I haven't much studied that end of the music spectrum. I'm mostly acoustic and strings and stuff like that.

Thanks again!
-Tracey