welcome to the club... it's a lonely, expensive wasteland of forgotten dreams... Holy shnikeys batman... that is SO MUCH SOLDERING. I am both horrified and a little turned on... but if you don't want to get the gun out... and don't want to buy all of the other bits separately:I've also been developing a fetishism for all things synthesizer
as a DIY kit, the thing is really affordable.
The total price is $3749
Holy crap I missed that. Also they haven't published a BOM yet, despite the fact that they claim they stopped taking preorders four months ago. And it uses reissued Curtiss 3340s - sixteen of them, at $15 or so ea. And it uses fifty-nine V2164 VCAs at $5 ea. So that's $520 worth of ICs alone... but they're making you pay a thousand dollars for a dozen nearly-empty through-hole circuitboards. Dunno, man. This just looks more and more shady.The total price is $3749