Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

According to these two pages:

<http://www.vintagesynth.com/emu/p2500.php>
<http://www.vintagesynth.com/emu/xl7.php>

the P2500 apparently has higher resolution DACs and faster MIDI 
processing than a P2000 but the XL-7 page makes no mention of this.

My understanding though is that the XL-7 (and other command stations) 
use the same main board as the P2500.

I was minded to try to get hold of a Command Station (since you guys 
want to do sequence backups and stuff which I think I could add to my 
emu.tools site) but then a friend pointed out the above and said he'd 
pick the P2500 because of its supposed advantages.

Does anyone here know the truth of it?

cheers,

Ray

Not really an answer to your question, but a little more info.  

From what I've seen, there were revisions through the run of some of the product lines.  I've had a P2000 that had a different power supply that was actually shielded, and IIRC there were differences on the main board as well.  You'll also find differences within the XX7 lines, where there are board revisions as well.  I think a late model XX7 is likely to be pretty similar to a P2500, but I don't have a 2500 anymore to compare. 

Tom

Thanks all for the info, and to Steve for the photos.

I think I'm going to conclude that the CS and P2500 units *are* the 
same, and that since I have quite enough rack mounted gear already I'm 
going to hold out for a reasonably priced CS to appear on the market.

I quite like the idea of having a standalone unit with pads that I can 
mess with on its own.

cheers,

Ray