On the one hand, I'm not much of a gearhound - my system is small and
while I think about adding a thing now & then it hasn't been in the
cards for a while.
Rex has done nothing less than a heroic job of not breaking what's good
and polishing what needs polish. He deserves to make a decent living at
it for however long he keeps doing it. I think the price increase
reflects trying to keep all the good things going & also give himself a
few comforts. But the increase - arrgh!
So it looks like the used market for me. Or try out the Modcan/Cynthia
stuff.
Peter Grenader wrote:
while I think about adding a thing now & then it hasn't been in the
cards for a while.
Rex has done nothing less than a heroic job of not breaking what's good
and polishing what needs polish. He deserves to make a decent living at
it for however long he keeps doing it. I think the price increase
reflects trying to keep all the good things going & also give himself a
few comforts. But the increase - arrgh!
So it looks like the used market for me. Or try out the Modcan/Cynthia
stuff.
Peter Grenader wrote:
> Not trying to start a flame war, but while I wholeheartedly agree that STS
> has greatly improved the exterior cosmetics, this alone being enough of an
> undertaking to warrant praise, the changes under the hood are not as evident
> from the old days and I take that from my own recent experience of recent;y
> repairing a system from the 70s, oner from the 80s fitted with the elusive
> Gentle Electric Pitch to Voltage converter and one from the late 90s.
>
> This is not to say that the current new/old engineering methods are not
> acceptable - the fact that there are hundreds out there still in operation
> and functional from that period being proof of this. But I must tell you,
> on the modules I repaired (VCOs, slews, random) systems from these two
> periods are much more similar than they are different from each another.
>
> I have heard however that Rex is up to a major redesign of the PCB art and
> this I would say would constitute a major upgrade internally and would not
> only afford a better system for the supply voltage distribution than daisy
> changing, but would easily allow for automated assembly, as the PCB gerber
> data integrates with modern day component stuffing machines.
>
> Again, I don't want to start a war here. Everyone is due their opinion, and
> this is mine. The new systems are just beautiful - probably the best
> looking currently manufactured by anyone and the sound still rings true of
> tradition in which the Serge system was founded.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Bill Sequeira wrote:
>
>
>>STS has taken Serge to a completely different engineering and manufacturing
>>level from the systems manufactured in the '70s and '80s - anyone with
>>panels from those decades can immediately tell the difference.
>
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