[Threlly]

haha, the jen is a sentimental item, no, I've had them all in my time, from the CS-1 up to the Moogs, and I hear what you say, but from my own experience your dead wrong.
Some of the mono synths of legend can produce the goods, many cannot, some of the most venerable were bloody awful (prophet 1 springs to mind).
My old CS-80 could blow away any moog, no problem, I'd be happy to sit anybody down with the two of them and defy the proof.

The problem is, most opinions of vintage synths are subjective at best (yours and mine included), so its horses for courses.

But when a company in this day-and-age starts selling an inferior product based on the goodwill created by their products of old, and dares to sell it for $1400, we must ask a simple question.

If the great and the good say something is the best, do you accept it at face value or have the balls to say, actually you're dead wrong ?

In 1985 I bought a DX-1, this was after meeting Dave Chowning himself at a Yamaha meet-and-greet.
the great and the good said Yamaha FM synthesis was the best.
I sold it 3 weeks later.
I picked up an OBX-a for some small change and had a lot more fun.