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This is a fun thread.. :-)

If you keep an eye on Ebay you will eventually find something decent for a reasonable asking price. Also, local pawn shops may from time to time offer something up as well. I found most of my bits of kit through Ebay, Kijiji and pawn shops... but it took a determined effort and many years.
  
Having been fortunate enough to experience and play all things Simmons new and old from back in 84~85 to present, I still maintain that no other eKit out there even comes close. While the Big Boys might have delivered us from Perspex with Mesh heads, there is nothing I would rather play than Mk4's and ZI Pads. There is just something about the look and yes.. the feel... of the hex's that does it for me. They are exciting to play... which is something I find lacking in anything else that's out there. Also, the others have given us ekits that are meant to replace acoustic kits in that they play and feel like acoustics and their sophisticated Brains are capable of "humanizing" and replicating the sound of a drum being played imperfectly.. which is great.. but I don't want that. When I sit behind my kit, I want "Numan", and not "Human".. lol.

But then again, I'm a computer nerd and drummer brought up on Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Eno, Steve Hillage, Jean Michel Jarre.....

Alan.