<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Oct 2020, at 5:19 pm, Roman Sowa <<a href="mailto:modular@go2.pl" class="">modular@go2.pl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">In the old days there were a lot of cheap repair shops not because the repair of big bulky THT radios was easy, but because there was no new equipment to buy, or it was very expensive. And it wasn't made with best components available so it easily broke from time to time. So a lot of needs to fix stuff from customers lead to big number of repairmen and low prices for their service. Why do I rant on economics now?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Roman</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That was once very true for radios, hi fi and TV….</div><div class="">was it ever true for synths?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe audio/PA/guitar/amp gear in general kept the techs busy enough, in between synth jobs….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A</div></body></html>