via this auction"An extremely rare chance to bid on a Rev2 prophet 5. Its well known that both the Rev1 and Rev2 prophet 5's produced a richer, more musical timbre due to the use of SSM oscillators and filters rather than Curtis Chips used in the V3 models. The Rev1 was not really stable at all and is not really worth considering unless you really know your way around analogue circuitry and a soldering Iron. The Rev3 is the most stable of the Prophet 5's but for many of us the sonic cost of that stability was too high, the Curtis chips ironed out all the character...
This Rev 2 has been lovingly rebuilt from scratch by James at Synth Repair Services and electronically I doubt there will be a finer example of a Rev2. As there were less than a thousand ever made, these synths are extremely rare. This sound gorgeous, there is a reason why the list opf people who have used the prophet 5 is basically a list of pretty much every keyboard player of the last twenty years i.e."
1. lotta bluster there: Rev2's are on ebay all the time, so not really "an extremely rare chance to bid" on one.
ReplyDelete2. pretty high asking price, too.
best of luck to the seller!