Title link takes you to shots via this auction.Details:
"It has the same engine as the fantastic DX1 synthesizer, combining two DX-7 engines into one synth with a great, responsive keyboard and higher quality components than the original DX-7."
via Johan
Ah, another one of my childhood dream synths...
ReplyDeleteSeems like a good price for somebody's dream synth! :-)
ReplyDeletea bit high but i would have hit the BIN if i hadn't just bought a beautiful B3. i would love to have a DX5 in nice shape.
ReplyDeleteHehe Dave - yeah, unfortunately it's so easy to get caught up buying stuff not because you're going to use it a lot, or even because it's good (most stuff these days is much better) - you end up buying it just to finally *own* one for a while, and when that itch is satisfied, it gets sold on.
ReplyDeleteI would *love* to have one of these (amongst other stuff) but it's just so impractical. They don't sound great compared to modern FM synths, so I'd basically be buying it to look at and fondle. Which is a little bit perverse... :)
Plus the shipping to the UK would be prohibitive - those things a big and heavy!
What guys like me need is a little club where we can just loan out synths to each other, just so we can play with them for a couple of weeks before sending them back.
So if anyone is happy loaning out any of the following, I'd be delighted to hear from you... ;)
(DX1, DX5, JP8, Matrix12, MemoryMoog, JX10, Prophet5, ProphetT8, OB8 and... well, that'll keep me busy for this year... ;)
anonymous: That would be a cool sort of collective. A group of people invest in coop-owned synths & everyone gets turns with them. Monthly or bimonthly swaps/gatherings/beerfests are set up... you can request available months for your convenience with a particular synth, or just get in line if a particular one is popular & hard to schedule.
ReplyDeleteDues could be collected from people with a "balance" due. Maybe $100 per month, which goes into a pot and invested in new synths as time goes by. Coop synths could have "deeds" with everyone's names on them. Can't afford dues one month? Return your borrowed synth(s?), and take a break from the co-op, returning when you want. Even if you had credit balance to the co-op, you could waive your synth & keep your balance indefinitely.
A donation of your existing synth, if it was deemed worthy, would buy you however much its market value is in dues. So donate your Memorymoog for three years' worth of dues!
If someone begged and pleaded to own a co-oped synth, and a vast majority of the group was OK with it, it could be purchased. It's original owner, if not bought by the co-op, would have power of veto. And any synths could be bought back from the co-op by their owners, at any time, no questions asked.
I would be totally down for something like this in the Northeast, but I think the dues would be pretty ritzy unless a lot of people came into it with a donated synth. For my part I have a Pro One and Wretch that I simply don't use enough, and would love people who wanted to try 'em out to be able to (assuming I could re-acquire them later on, particularly the Metasonix).
I'm sure there are parts of the system that are flawed (and I don't think I'm smart enough to truly figure it out mathematically, not to mention legally), especially such as when a synth breaks, but the more people are involved, and the more synths are donated, the easier I believe it would be for it to work, assuming it would at all.
OK, so maybe this was too long-winded an idea for a blog comment... it was fun to think about though! :o)