As I mentioned before, I unfortunately never had a real MSX, but now I try to compensate this shortcoming as good as possible by means of OpenMSX and others. I also try to learn as much as possible about it.
Now I wonder, with the 300+ variants that exist, which one you use when you use the emulator.
I would also be interested to know for what purpose you use the emulated MSX / real MSX today.
I look forward to your answers, which are at the same time suggestions for me. 
Hello bodhi1969, I have 2 MSX computers and sometimes use an emulator. The emulator I mainly use on my laptop for learning better programming when I don’t have the time to sit behind my real MSX computers.
I have an vg 8235 with a lot of audio expansIons in it like the Philips Music Module, FM pak, OPL4 shockwave, SE-ONE and the Megaflashrom with the SCC sound chip. I also have the Philips keyboard for the Music Module and the Toshiba keyboard with the MSX-Audio sound cartridge. I mainly use this one for making music with Moonblaster 1.4 and Moonblaster WAVE and Moonblaster FM. If you like making music you can do this very well with this setup in real or emulated off course.
I also have a NMS 8280. This MSX can digitize video and super impose with video where you can lay MSX graphics over the video signal. Very usefull for making title screens or make pixel art from digitized images. You can even make moving animations to blend in with the real video using software like Video Graphics. If you like digitizing old video recordings, like I do, you can add a lot of information to the video’s while digitizing to PC or HDD recorder without using modern software. Its fun and looks good on these old video’s.
Of course the most important thing on an MSX is play games!! 
You can do this on every MSX and that’s great 
I use openMSX for coding because it's easy to inject ascii code from outside the MSX and the reverse option is great to avoid losing code due to crashes, loops and reboots.
I also use it if I want to play a game. In the olden days I could be hooked up to a game for weeks and only said a nasty word after dozens of useless game overs. Now I don't have that patience anymore. And knowing that reverse exists I can't do without anymore.
Though, I rarely ever code or play a game 
In all cases I use either a Panasonic FS-A1ST or FS-A1GT just because of its speed.
In real life I use several beefed up machines, but a Panasonic FS-A1ST in particular. It's the machine I use to make music on.
