Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- Ed wrote:
> This is idle specuation, but what about the possibility
> that the DXtremeIIS is a lower-end DTXtreme model--taking
> the place of the intermediate gum-rubber DTXv2.0--with a
> higher-end non-rubber kit (the DTXtremeIISP) waiting in
> the wings.

It's possible. While I was stooging about yesterday, I'm sure I came 
across an old Yamaha web page with the previous DTXtreme having had 
an entry level kit with rubber pads. I cling to the lifeline that 
Yamaha can't be quite so benightedly stupid (again) as to release a 
top-end kit with only gum rubber pads (no matter how good) as an 
option. I'm also hoping that the 8MB is a base option and expandable.

But this (hopefully) base configuration of the XtremeII has an MSRP 
of over $3000. Assuming mesh pads are coming, and assuming that the 
sample memory is expandable, where the heck is the price going to 
end up? Ok, street price will be lower but it's going to end up 
somewhere out of my reach, that's for sure.

Stewart