Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

John,

Glad to help. Jim made a good point. You could buy the DTXpress that 
came out last year for the price of the Hart Prodigy or even less. 
Some online dealers are still selling it (Musicians Friend in the 
discount section, for one), and I know that a DTXpress recently 
showed up in the Harmony Central classifieds. Ebay almost always has 
a set or two as well. What you'd be missing are the new piezo/2-rim 
switch inputs, furry pads, and maybe a slightly more stable rack. 
Arguably, these are expendable if you're in a hurry to drum, or if 
you end up replacing any of the rubber pads for mesh heads, since 
these are either single-zone or dual-zone (requiring two inputs or 
input 9/10 via a splitter) without rim switches anyway. Most of us 
who bought before the mark II arrived did not consider ourselves at 
any sort of disadvantage. Hope to see you back soon.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "John Casler" <bioforce.inc@g...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Ed wrote:
> 
> > There's a review of the Prodigy here:
> > http://www.acousticdrums.com/members/esp-1qtr02.html.
> 
> >If the $300 more that the Yamaha
> > costs is an issue, then the Hart isn't a bad compromise. 
Otherwise
> > it would seem that the versatility of the DTXpress would be a 
better
> > bet for the long run.
> 
> ***Hey Ed,
> 
> Thanks for the advice.  It looks like Yamaha is the better buy.  
Now its
> just a matter of saving the funds.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John from LA.