> Best $240. I ever spent. Does the "P5 sound"
> better than my Ion, and they compliment each other
I agree. I'll listen to Yaz/Yazoo's "Upstairs at Erics" and than
think to myself, "Man...I've just gotta get an SCI Pro-1 but then I
talk myself out of it since I have AN200 that, by almost all accounts,
can get pretty close...and it has patch memory. I wouldn't really
want a performance synth where you couldn't store patches - I'm just
not old-skool enough! Even Dave Smith himself said that good VAs can
get "90%" of the analog sound and he went on to say that in his
opinion that's good enough when you factor in the advantages and extra
features of VA vs. aging analogs.
I certainly like (or love??) my Ion but it's more of an amorphous "any
analog" whereas the ANs are focused on sounding like a P5.