There you have it. The T3 Drums are NOT the bees knees! Who would've guessed?

Bill (Wersi), I realize that your opinion of the T3 Drum kits don't match up to chony's opinion but somehow I find myself trusting chony's opinion over yours my friend. You don't happen to sell Yammies on the side now do you Bill? Because if you do I could see how the prospect of "losing" money might sway your otherwise honest opinion. If you don't sell Yammies on the side then it is just one man's opinion vs. another man's opinion.

The reason your opinion didn't mesh up with me on the true nature of the T3 Drum kits Bill (according to what chony has recently attested to, and who also has no axe to grind or money or stock invested in the Big Y ) is that after hearing the T3 Drum kit demos online from Yammie and elsewhere for myself I could immediately tell that they were very similar sounding to the T2's drums, both in substance and quality. That said, I could not really fathom how the T3 drum kits could sound "so much better" in person when the online demos didn't demonstrate to me how they could. Yamaha, in creating those factory Drum Kit demos, were no doubt trying to put their best foot forward and I'm sure used highly expensive recording equipment plus expert software programming and sound engineers to make them what they were. With all that invested in the demos and to have them sound about the same as the T2 drums I knew right off that they wouldn't sound "much better" in person. Sometimes that can happen i.e. (where the online demo doesn't do a sound justice and it is better when heard in person) but that is usually the case when the demos heard online are done haphazardly and recorded with less than stellar recording equipment. OTOH, Yamaha has a "VAST" amount of resources available to them to record online demos in a professional and expert fashion. When the samples aren't up to snuff though {case in point, the T3 drum kit samples} , then the demos will almost always translate to roughly "same type of sound" when they are heard in person. And that is my opinion...

Best,
Mike