Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Jade,

Did Alternate Mode steer you to rezdrums? Now that you mention it, I 
recall that Mario at Alernate Mode may have sent someone else to 
them. Their price on the KITI is the same as Alternate Modes' highly 
touted final close-out price for it when it went out of production. 
So rez probably thinks that they can get away with it. I haven't 
seen a midiKITI fetch more than $100-120 on ebay. PrePal's average 
pricing for it on the used market is a whopping $69, and that's the 
ballpark in my experience. People will spend more for it because 
they think they have to and because it's a really good piece of 
equipment. After all, it is a rare specialty item. If you don't do 
your homework, you can get burned (unless, of course, you want one 
so bad and so fast that $200 doesn't throw you--a distinct mode of 
behavior that I know from firsthand experience). The power supply's 
no big deal. If you manage to get the interface itself without one, 
I'll give you the rating, and you can check your spare ones at home 
or buy one from radio shack, PC connection, or whatever. Personally, 
I think rez is giving you the runaround. Nobody does a song and 
dance about finding a power supply if they have a customer who just 
might be willing to buy without it. I may be wrong; they may call 
you tomorrow and take your offer of $100. But I'll bet they don't 
have one, think they know where they might get one, and are trying 
to procure it to make a nice little profit for themselves. They know 
drummers want them. Alternate Mode was even thinking of making it 
again last year.

I have been keeping my eye out for it--the Roland, too--and will 
continue to do so until we find one or you cave and get the TMC-6, 
which wouldn't be a bad consolation prize. But then you might have 
to start from scratch saving for the next cymbal.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "jadiebooshkie 
<jadiebooshkie@y...>" <jadiebooshkie@y...> wrote:
> Seems like this is the needle in the hay stack.......will you keep 
> your eyes and ears open for me?  I found one, supposedly from 
> Resurrection Drums (Rezdrums.com) and they were supposed to call 
me 
> back, they had to check to see if it had power cords with it 
> (apparently they have a couple of KITIs)...well that was 2 days 
> ago!!  Plus they wanted a whopping $200 for it..with NO power cord 
> for criminy sakes!!!  Think they are trying to rip me off??!!
> Anyway...to all that read this post, please let me know if ya 
happen 
> to run across one.  If I can't find one, I will buy the Roland TMC-
> 6...what do ya think about Rezdrums? Has anyone out there done any 
> dealing with them? They are in Florida.......Jade