Dude it's a thousand fucking dollars. For an 8-voice thingy made in 2018 with bloody CV inputs. And it sounds thin and pissy. Know how awesome the A6 Andromeda was gonna be? And then it turned out to be a thin pissy piece of shit? I mean, yaay circuit-bending? I guess? But just as an example I can go out and buy a 25-key Komplete Kontrol with Komplete 11 for a thousand dollars. MS-20 kits are going for a grand assembled ($1300 if you want one unbuilt - says something about circuit-bending, don't it? Looking over eBay people are paying stupid money for shitty synths - I remember when you couldn't get rid of an A6 for $800 and now they're fricking $4k which just proves how insane people are. A thousand bucks for an SH-101? Or $500 for V-collection. It's a no-brainer. Sure - I guess you can sink a thousand dollars into building someone's pissy synth. But I wouldn't.On top of it, as a DIY kit, the thing is really affordable.
Well I had affordability in mind when I saw the $350 on the preorder page, not so much for the actual price which doesn't even include components. I think I'll go the PAiA route. Still, fetishism with old tech in music is pretty much the standard, so I'm not at all surprised people will drool over the $3.5k price tag.
For $350 with parts it'd rip. But as I pointed out below, the chips alone for this thing are over $500. Each pot is gonna be like $3. The rest of the parts are likely cheap... but if they aren't even going to tell you, I mean WTF man. I think everyone fetishes until they get ahold of something and then they let go. I remember how cool that little Teenaged Engineering thing was until I realized they were selling it for more than a Korg X3 cost new. And yeah - that's 20 years ago but it's also a 32-track sequencer workstation with a full 61-key keyboard.
Not compared to classic cars. I didn't buy a whole bunch of SH101s for $300 and now they're $1000. But I also didn't buy a Lancia Stratos HF for $25k and the last time I saw one of those it was a million and a half. 'member back when you could get an Espada for like $18k? I saw one for $550k last month. Insanity.