Got $60,000.00

mtvic

http://cgi.ebay.com/EMS-SYNTHI-100-ANALOGUE-SYNTHESIZER_W0QQitemZ260053065223QQihZ016QQcategoryZ38071QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

WHOA
lots of other highend gear posted in sellers other items not cheap.
Hurry and get your bids in .
Auction ends on Black Friday

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:31 am Post subject:

Seems like the seller is a pro dealer in fancy gear.

The price is a bit over the top, but this EMS is unique. It does however not make sense that he hasn´t listed the previous owners. Shocked

Unless you are a rich collector, a modern DIY project will easily surpass what this EMS can do and it will probably sound much better. Restoring the EMS will probably not be cheap. However, this big machine is an important bit of em history.

Mohoyoho · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:02 am Post subject:

I believe this is the second or third time this unit has been offered on Ebay.

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:06 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

funny i saw this. cool but for 55000e you can get a new one.. right now some guy is offering a "40year old" vcs3 for 4500usd. again. you can get a new one for 4500e. some people and their used gear!

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:08 am Post subject:

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

oh yeah 2+ years? crazy.

well.. if you want one, then i guess you have to wait or shell out for an AS IS 40year old model for "around" around the same price..

both are crazy IMO.

but then call me crazy. id wait the two years if i had the money. but i dont.

is that waiting list pay up front?

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:16 am Post subject:

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

ha. sound lab. next project.

if a sound lab had 3 osc, then it would be closer to a synthi, yes?

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

err. Oh yeah. LFO. forgot all about that.

etherline · Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 42 Location: UK

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

.. the ems pages in the uk are old. try ems in germania. they are built there these days...

http://www.emsrehberg.de/index.html

i didnt see a wait list.. but i will imagine it is what v-un-v said.. it would seem logical considering the vcs3 sold real quick for 4500

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:53 am Post subject:

I think the price of those machines (EMS) is a total rip-off. Remember, it's an iconic product that you are buying into- the electronics parts are the same as any other analogue synth. When the synthi first came out it cost £350, and there was not a lot else around at that price at that time. (compare that price with a Moog or Arp selling at the same time)

If I had 4500 euros, I would probably by a Nord G2 instead and go on holiday with the rest. People forget that this machine (VCS3) was designed by someone who hated patch cables- that's all, hence the way it looks. The Nord G2 you could say, is what Peter Zinovieff would have designed if EMS were now.

Alternatively, build a Soundlab instead, and patch it all up with banana plugs- you'll get the same sounds. Heck, even buy the EMS modules seperately from Analogue Systems!

Only buy a synthi if you really have no choice. But remember you may automatically place yourself on the ClassWar hit list! Shocked

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:55 am Post subject:

PS;

http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/

EMS in Cornwall.

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

y. but page is dated 1998....

that is crazy old in today's internet standards.

hence etherline's post

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:23 am Post subject:

etherline · Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 42 Location: UK

Thanks nsiter.

I feel slightly fraudulent now; in truth I don't have 4500Euros at the moment. I was more interested from the point of daydreaming about what I would buy next if I did have 4500Euros. My bank balance is still hurting from the Macbeth M5 I picked up a month or so ago.

I suspect that a psychiatrist would have a field day but I'm not interested in the unattainable, hence the question.

Certainly if I was being a bit more careful with my daydream money I would be thinking about a Zeroscillator or other delightful West Atlantic toys (£/$)...but then I'd have to think about which format Confused

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject:

ian-s · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

etherline · Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 42 Location: UK

v-un-v · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 12:50 am Post subject:

nsiter · Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 15 Location: suomi

well there are some Diy pages here... sound lab was mentioned... and there are a few people who have built their own clones of synthi and vcs3.. i guess you might save only a bit of money as the matrix patch bay is fairly expensive (and making your own is a pain i gather).. i would imagine the clone isnt so far off, and one could add whatever tweaks to it.. plus, as with any vintage equipment, i would imagine the old units are slightly a pain, so if you were to build your own, you would be able to trouble shoot quite easily if something was to break.. i would think that when you were done you would have a fairly crystal knowledge of the workings, which would help when it came time to play around and make some sounds...

i have never used one, but although the price is quite ridiculous these days (thanks rich old b stard collectors!- and i say "collectors" not musicians- just imagine what some of these young guys who make music could do with one IF they could afford one), the music that i know for certain ems gear was used on is really amzing.. (like stockhausen's sirius - synthi100, propeller island- hermaneutic music and much of conrad schnitzler's earlier works, as well as the sound efx to doctor who (at least through the 1970s) with the bbc's synthi100)

but yeah check out the Diy pages.. of course EMS is EMS but there are enough people out there who have the documentation for whatever.. like who can really afford those buchla devices? but ive seen webpages with documents and pictures of all the circuit boards for the old modular that i believe morton subotnik used on silver apples..

derekrevell · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: EMS Synthi 100

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm very old, so I've got an excuse, but I seem to remember that a Synthi 100 was temporarily exported to the US for a music expo, and EMS was at a low financially, and couldn't afford for the Synth to be shipped back to the U.K. so it was left in storage, could this be that Synth, does anyone know?