How about a good old shootout? Pistols (oops, I meant arrangers ) at dawn. Two arrangers enter, one arranger leaves?

What so far has failed to have been produced is a straight comparison. TWD came up with some guitar, but admittedly, buried a little. OTOH, Ian has failed to come up with ANYTHING (except his acerbic opinion ) in the way of a comparison.

You know, to be fair, I have YET to hear Yamaha's new NTT's soloed. Nothing up at their sites AFAIK. So we only have Ian's OPINION how good they are. Which has as much value as Lee's I want to HEAR how much better (or not) they are over the Audya's loops as applied to SOLO'D acoustic guitar strumming with a complex set of chords and passing chords.

So, how about it, gentlemen? (all evidence to the contrary )

Pick a set of chord progressions (maybe those from TWD's example), solo the acoustic track, record the results. Proof of the pudding is in the listening, not the incessant yacking

Put your money where your mouths are...

(Korg users, feel free to show off your Guitar Mode, too, if you want in on this bitchslap-fest!)