Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "jbgrahame" <jbgrahame@...> wrote:
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> A $19,000 sampler would be the ultimate poseur's instrument. Sadly, I can't see more than a handful being sold. After all, twenty grand (once shipping is factored in) is enough to buy gobs of brilliant hardware and software in today's market.
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> I can't see this being a success, especially since it's priced out of range of the machine's biggest fans.

Well I guess the bottom line is Fairlight users tend to be a dedicated lot. I'm definitely thinking of getting one, mainly because I'm bored to death of lifeless, characterless plug ins and control surfaces. My current rig is an all singing all dancing 192Khz monster but it doesn't inspire to do sod all. Without doubt I did all my best stuff on my Series 3 (the people who bought my records thought so as well!) When this $5000 dollar price tag was knocking about initially, I just laughed, knowing full well it could never be done properly at that kind of price. So at $19,000(delivery is included in the price apparently) it seems more realistic. However you've got to look at import tax (depending where you are of course)That's gonna be a deal maker or breaker. The commitment is on the part of the end user here to invest big bucks in the hope that this system sounds anywhere near as good as its predecessors without so much as a demo. In terms of sales, I would imagine there would be several major artists who would already have their money out (I would figure with the right PR you could shift roughly 25 units to major artists immediately) Anyway, I've already run it past the missus and she's cool, so for me, it might be a goer...