classic or 2nd hand C?

[Hollowcell]

Originally Posted by c mode

Well basically you are right. Second hand gear here is fairly cheap and generally excellent quality. Theres some great stuff in Akihabara as I'm sure you know.

For sure! Some of the better ones seem to be in the "cooler" towns though I rekon.

The Classic prices I quoted were for new ones from shops in shibuya. Ishibashi and Rock on actually. They throw on a hefty profit for sure. Still I can make a buck or two myself I think.

Yep, Ishibashi does crank up prices (in Tokyo specially), but I bought my Roland HPD15 drum from them (shibuya store) and pushed them down 14000yen - took work though!.

I saw an sh101 second hand at Ishibashi for 30 000yen. Seemed an ok price for such and old (but still handy) synth. Don't have the table top space tho..

Not a bad price, but they go for much cheaper on the auctions and stuff. 101s have risen in price by double since I've been here. 8O But Junos have dropped sharply.

Anyway let me put your offer on hold till I get the classic. I'll see what its all about, then if I outgrow it I'll hit You up for the C. I'm guessing you'd like to upgrade to a Ti?

No problem. The quickest thing to out grow will be the voices - even on the C there isn't enough. Then there are the filters (that's more personal taste though). If you put on an extra 1man yen, I'd even bring it to tokyo for ya.

And yeh, upgrading to a TI would be nice. Not sure if I could do that straight away though - I'd wait for a year to see if the bugs get ironed out first.

Do you know the japanese list price btw?

No I'm not sure now. The only price list I had was for when I bought mine. The prices were very inflated on that list though.

Originally Posted by DS

HC...if u hadnt of bought the VC...what would you have bought? Im guessing a Jupiter 6 for starters. THey are cheep in ur neck of the woods. Japanese analogs go for alot more over here in the West. Just as the american poly's (sequential, oberheim etc)....go for alot in asia.

Outboard, outboard and then a little more outboard. I may have grabbed an MS2000 and ION in there too though.

To buy good condition older analogues, it's more a waiting game. If I see good ones pop up I'll grab them any way. I could sell them at home for much more, so it's like investing.