It's a bunch of guys incredibly passionate about a box that doesn't even count in real world of Emu hardware. You just don't get it do you?
Ignoring the rest of your rant, I am curious as to why you feel that the XL-7 somehow isn’t authentically E-mu. It’s a natural descendant of technology from the Proteus 2000, which in turn was evolved from the Morpheus, which in turn evolved from the Proteus modules, which evolved from the Emulator III... How is it that the XL-7 “doesn’t even count in [the] real world of E-mu hardware” if there is no break in lineage that puts the Command Stations outside of the stream of “authentic” E-mu development?