Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Jones" <spjones_uk@y...> wrote:
> I intend to get a dtxpress, but pricing in the UK is terrible. The 
> cheapest I can get a dtxpress II is £875 ($1500). I've seen US 
shops 
> selling the dtxpress III special edition for less!
> Anyway, my question is twofold - 
> 1) Anyone know anywhere in the UK I can get one for less? 

Hi Paul,

Have you tried Thomann, which has a price of 990 Eur for the III?

> 2) Should I go for an older kit - do they last or are the pads 
ruined 
> after such a beating????

A used DTXpress II wouldn't be a bad option if the alternative were a 
new DTXpress IIISTD. The change in this case would simply be the new 
cymbal sounds in the module and a redesigned rack. You could probably 
live without them if money, availability, timing, etc. were important 
considerations. The gum rubber pads and cymbals generally hold up 
pretty well over time; there are exceptions to every trend, but in 
this case not worth passing up a bargain if one is to be had. I don't 
think that an older kit would work as well if the DTXpressIIISP were 
the preferred alternative. The new round cymbals (one of them with 
three voices), the curved rack, and the hi hat on a stand might be 
too hard to resist. In any event, unless the deal were really great, 
you might not want to go so far back as the DTXpress I or the DTX 
v2.0, because they'd be limiting if you ever wanted to pursue newer 
Yamaha pads and cymbals, and, at that age, the components themselves 
might be compromised in a meaningful sense (thougn not necessarily).

Ed