[sdiy] Holy price tags, Batman!

[James Patchell]

This guy has other stuff for auction...I just watched a auction for an AMEK 
HENDRIX automated mixing desk (starting bid $22,000.00) end without any 
bids....


At 11:28 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, john mahoney wrote:
> > Even if I was FSR (Filthy Stinking Rich), I *really* don't think I'd drop
> > 100 large on a synthesizer. ANY synthesizer. Maybe 25 or 50 on an original
> > Moog proto or Emerson's Monster Moog, but not for a Putney on steroids.
>
>Well, I inadvertently suggested that I lust after VCS synths. I don't, but I
>honestly know very little about them. I can't say where I've heard a VCS,
>for sure. <bows head in shame> But that *was* pristine (looking) and
>certainly an impressive beast. If cost were no object, it would look good in
>a studio.
>
>And, I've got to believe that it sounds monstrous! In a good way.
>
>I don't see DIY circuits based on VCS, either. Lots of Moog, ARP, Korg MS,
>Oberheim... some CEM and SSM clones... but no VCS. (I will now prepare for
>the onslaught of info about VCS DIY gear. ;-)
>
>Anyone have an explanation for the lack of VCS clones? Is there not a
>particular VCS sound?
>
>
> > I see people
> > listing Odysseys for $1500 and Minis for $3000 and they're either thinking
> > the same way, or they've stopped taking their medication...
>
>I concur, sir! But if Minimoogs get $1500 and up, why do Odysseys rarely
>fetch $600?
>--
>john

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