Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "S-E-A" <sonicenergyauthority@n...> 
wrote:
> 
> Now here's the bad news, Thomann sent me an order confirmation 
email, but
> have explained that Yamaha now can only ship them "the end of June, 
and
> that's if I order now".
> Bit of a shame, but at least there is an approximate time of 
availability.


This matches up with what we were told by Jim Haler. If the Dtxpress 
IIIsp/Dtxtreme IIS kits were going out the door like gang busters, 
then the availability of the individual components could lag by a few 
months. They were going to supply the kits firsts and the individual 
upgrade components later. I have seen where folks in Japan have 
gotten some individual pads already, but then again, you have to 
consider the lag time between availability of the kits in Japan and 
in the US/Europe. The Dtxpress IIISP, which included the 
PCY150s/PCY130s/PCY130 was announced in Japan in the middle of 
October 2003 for availability by Novemeber 30, 2003. These kits did 
not come available here until the end of March 2004. So there was a 
few months in which they could ship some extra ones to the Japanese 
market, not knowing what the US/European demand would be.

(Soap Box Time)


My personnal opinion is that both Roland and Yamaha should not have 
shown their new kits until Summer NAMM 2004 and have folks waiting 
around for 3-6 months to get their hands on them, but instead should 
have built up a good supply of the kits for distribution, leaked the 
information in June of 2004 and released them at Summer NAMM 2004, so 
that we could all go out get what we wanted within weeks of their 
announcement. 

I also personnally think that NAMM is becoming a outdated mode of 
introducing new gear. I believe that NAMM needs to become Internet 
based product release gathering, a direct-to-the-actual-consumer 
venture. In most cases, the vendors/distributors that go to NAMM come 
back with less knowledge of the products than what can be found with 
a few hours of searching on the Internet by a consumer. Before I go 
to the local Guitar Center to buy something, I will spend hours 
pouring over information available on the internet and in ALL cases I 
will end up knowing more about that product than the salesman. So why 
spend time and money showing vendors who don't ultimately buy their 
products anyway....We are the ones buying their products and we 
should be the ones that the manufacturers marketing directly.

(Stepping down from soapbox.)

OGD