Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I notice these are coming up for not unreasonable prices at the 
moment. Does the panel have any views on these rather old modules?

Stewart

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> 
> I notice these are coming up for not unreasonable prices at the 
> moment. Does the panel have any views on these rather old modules?
> 
> Stewart

Stewart,

I don't remember how they sounded to make an adequate comparison 
with anything, but it seems to me that you could do a lot worse than 
the TD7 for a second module. First of all, the basic technology 
hasn't changed that much. I think that the TD8 is regarded as a 
genuine improvement, but the TD7 still has stereo inputs and dual 
zones. It has only half as many actual sounds as the TD8--or 
DTXpress, for that matter--but how many of the 1,000 voices do we 
actually use, or like? Like the Yamaha, it is a 16 bit engine, and 
its ergonomics are certainly in the same league, if not a little 
better. 

That said, one question for me is, With the next wave of technology 
about to spring, with probably a bit of trickle-down to follow 
shortly (if not immediately) thereafter, how much do we want to 
invest of our fresh-squeezed cash on old equipment? I know that it's 
only $200 or so, but I've bought something inexpensive impulsively 
in the past because I HAD TO HAVE IT NOW, only to find out that if 
I'd waited, I would have had something better (case in point, my 
early-generation plasma monitor). 

Okay, I'm meandering. Also keep in mind that I once suggested to 
Stephen that the Alesis DM5 wouldn't make a bad second module 
either, and he absolutely loathed it, scurrying back to the DTXpress 
as fast as he could. But out on a limb, I like the TD7 for that 
purpose, though I don't know how long I'd want to be stuck with it 
if it left me that much longer out of the market for something new.

Ed

--- "liberatusvirus" wrote:
> ... one question for me is...how much do we want to 
> invest of our fresh-squeezed cash on old equipment?

A question I ask myself all the time in any technology field!

The decision point is not yet nigh... I am just assembling the 
options ready for the Next Big Push (WW1 trenches terminology seems 
somehow appropriate when getting frivolous things through domestic 
finance subcommittees).

My big fear is that the next module from Yamaha will be the unholy 
combination of technically wonderful and *almost* affordable. That 
would be just unbearable...

Stewart

Stewart,

Maybe you could move the terminology up to WWII and act like 
Churchill. No one would be able to stop you.

Ed


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> --- "liberatusvirus" wrote:
> > ... one question for me is...how much do we want to 
> > invest of our fresh-squeezed cash on old equipment?
> 
> A question I ask myself all the time in any technology field!
> 
> The decision point is not yet nigh... I am just assembling the 
> options ready for the Next Big Push (WW1 trenches terminology 
seems 

> somehow appropriate when getting frivolous things through domestic 
> finance subcommittees).
> 
> My big fear is that the next module from Yamaha will be the unholy 
> combination of technically wonderful and *almost* affordable. That 
> would be just unbearable...
> 
> Stewart