Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

> The saddest thing is they have posted the price on the site at $1495! If
> only that were true, I'd get two!

The only reference to the price of the PEK that I see on the DSi
website is his "low $2Ks" quote (I'm not sure the revealed price
really meets that though!).  It lists the normal rack polyvolver at
$1495.

It's definitely a quandary.  You can get a _lot_ of cool synths for
$2600, but damn, the hardware's looking nice (especially compared to
the minimalist PE rack), and there's just something really really nice
about the way the evolver sounds --- no one feature exactly stands out
on its own (e.g. the filter, while definitely a tad more organic than
most VA filters, ain't no moog ladder), but it seems to be have so
many nice little touches, which add up in the end; it's like eating a
meal in a very good restaurant.  I'd really like to be able to play my
evolver polyphonically....

I figure maybe D.S. put this rather uncomfortable price on it
intentionally:  he got everybody's attention with the original
evolver, and if the price of the PEK was really $1500, people would be
beating down his door to get them -- and he probably can't make them
that fast.  This way, he'll still probably sell a nice handful, but
still be able to keep up.  [I don't think "grow the company, quickly!"
is a solution -- isn't that what killed many of the original synth
companies in the 70s/80s?  D.S. seems to be purposely going for the
slow and steady approach this time around.]

-Miles
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