Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Michael Lieberman
<mikelieberman@y...> wrote:
> I have owned a DTX express for the last 5 years and was happy with
it up until the Sydney Edrum expo and had a go of the Roland TD20.
>
> The TD20 was so superior to the the DTXpress in the way it played
and sounded I now have one in my lounge room.
>
> The DTXpress will now be my daughters drum kit as she is learning.
>
> I will try and use some of the dual trigger pads of the DTXpress
for triggering interesting sounds but that is about it.
>
> The TD20 is so much like a real kit with far more options I was gob
smacked that I had played the DTxpress for as long as I did.
>
> But then again they are chalk and cheese in price as well.

Michael,

This is mainly a case of apples and oranges, or chalk and cheese, not
just incidentally. I daresay, just about everyone who bought the
humble DTXpress for $1000 knew that they weren't getting something
comparable to a $5000 kit. It's not like people bought the DTXpress
in a vaccuum and then all of a sudden stumbled into something much
more elaborate that by some quirk of fate happens to cost $5000 more.
Price points matter, and most e-drummers are aware of the
differences. The question at the level of the Roland TD-20 is not
whether it outperforms the DTXpress, or anything else at the DTXP's
modest level, but whether the TD-20 at its price represents
everything that all e-drummers would want. Notwithstanding your
experience at the Sydney Expo, I'm willing to bet that there are
other kit alternatives to the TD-20 that would also flip your skirt
if you were aware of them. Many DTXpress owners know that the
exorbitant money spent for a Roland product is not always money well
spent, regardless of whether they can afford the alternatives or not.
The DTXpress has its valuable and valid place; so does the TD-20, and
a lot of other equipment loosely within its tax bracket. But vive les
differences.

Ed