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What ski to add to my quiver?

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It looks like I'm ready to pull the trigger and start the quiver thing.

A little bit about me:
 5'10'', 190 lbs. 23 yo, skiing for 8 years, expert skier in that I can turn left and right down most terrain in most conditions. Still not really and expert since I do not ski as fast as some other guys do, do not always ski in good style and do not huck my meat off really huge features - 15'+ for me.

My quiver at the moment is made up of 1 ski - the Dynastar Legend Pro XXL in a 187 length. I love this ski for everything I try to ski (from groomer to shallow powder to crud) but really deep pow, 20''+.
This fact and some money income are pushing me to expand my quiver and add a pow specific ski. There are a lot of sticks of this type in the market but unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll be able to test so I am asking you for advice.

What I want from the new ski?
1)Excellent floatation in powder
2)Versatility across a wide range of natural(crust of different types/windbuff/windpack) but mainly untracked conditions (the ski will be used mainly for cat/heliskiing and biggest inbounds days)

At the moment the Armada Arg looks pretty tempting to me. Salomon Rocker looks like a bigger super rockered XXL and looks interesting as well.

I am open to your ideas and suggestions.

Thanks
 
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The big stylistic divide is how turny you want your powder ski to be.  Judging from your existing ski, I'm guessing you are a big, fast arc person.  (I'm a slow turny guy myself -- I've tried freight trains and hated them.)

If you demo, try to sample the soft/turny to stiff/big radius spectrum.

Narrowing down your preferences will help those who are more current than me with specific suggestions.
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the XXL's in 187 are not freight trains at all. At least I found them pretty maneuverable and at the very same time stable. This is what I love about them. 
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