bubbleman77 skrev:
> Hi folks,
Hi and welcome!
> just joined this group as i have come across a SDS III and might be
> looking to sell it. Believe it or not someone GAVE me this synth many
> years ago when i was younger when i didn't really know what i had in
> my hands TBH so it lived in my loft for about 15 years. I had
> forgotten all about it over the years and discovered it again a few
> months ago.
Cool!
> Its got the Musicaid logo on the back and is in ok nick, a few
> scratches and one nob missing along with two of the little gray
> plastic screw covers off the top of two other nobs. It is fully
> working apart from that.
Good news too, but be prepared... it'll start to break down just about
now. 30-35 years seems to be the life span of many of the internal IC's.
Not that they're that rare, but it's good to know. I've fixed up two
SDS-4's and have a broken SDS-3 I'm about to dig into...
> NOW i know what a truly great/classic piece of gear this is and the
> sheer lack off information out there on the web on them shows how
> little of them are around that are still working. The number of
> people trying to clone them suggests this too. I've looked all over
> the net and have yet to find one for sale or that has been sold
> recently. The closest i have come to finding a potential price was
> one guy in Europe who was prepared to pay 800 to 1000 euros for one?!?
Might have been me. ;) Thanks to this list I'm now a owner and maybe
you'll find another buyer here. If not, I bet Ebay will prove that the
interest is great in this wicked machine!
> Really i have no idea so im putting this out there to see what the
> situation is before i decide whether to sell or not.
Since you know it's valuable there's no need to try to rob you of it.
Selling below 400 quid would be stupid indeed and the SDS-3 is the most
wanted beast among the oldies so I'd say at least 600 if it's in the
condition you say and has all four pads to go with it.
∗ooooh∗ I really feel the urge to fix mine now - where's that soldering
iron?! ;)
Who's the first to mail an offer offlist?
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