i tend to really dislike xy recordings, no soundstage at all and very flat sounding to me, IMO(w/ the exception of mark s and some of his recordings-150's)
but DIN and ortf really shine w/ the 480's, also, IMO, thats the only way to run em
i did a set for set comp at moe 4/4/03 and the DIn just smashes the xy to bits