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Originally Posted by meisenhower
The keyboard guy indicated that they were no longer going to carry the Virus Ti at that particular store. The one they had was new, but had the OS 1.2.3 from Aug 06 and had been sitting since.
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Have they normally shifted lots of TI boxes (in the past)?
Turnkey in England was a huge retailer (primary distributor for Access in the UK) and had a mammoth clearance of Virus TIs this time last year (so much so I thought a TI mk2 was actually coming out that year), but it was simply that Turnkey was suffering from the economic nose-dive. They actually went into administration.
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They put a "blowout" clearance sale price of $1319 (USD) and it was a total no brainer to buy it. I'll do the OS update today and should be golden.
That said, if a new model comes out, that will likely make a pretty big dent in any resale value for the one I just bought...
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After it gets to a certain level, second hand viruses don't tend to depreciate further. They hold their values well as they are a respected and revered synth engine. The TI is a monster of a synth compared to the Virus C and earlier versions. $1319 is a very, very good price for new, and for what you get it is certainly worth that sum and would keep you going for years, regardless of what may (or may not) occur in the future.
Regards the Ti line.... To try to put a little of it into perspective, my guess on things, Access recently acquired
www.VirusTI.com (the other forum that is no more... Actually I wonder how much it was sold for! Jammy buggers.
). Access would only have done that if they are/were to continue supporting the TI brand. I think the TI and any such TI mk2 would be more like siblings and their bond would be the Total Integration aspect. It appears the TI element is not going anywhere soon.
That said, the fact that Access
have bought out VirusTi.com at this point in time, and that Marc stated a redesign of the Access website stands to be deployed very soon (within weeks), certainly points to an announcement at Namm.