Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Hermann Seib" <hermann@s...> 
> This seller is "synhouse"... and if you've ever made a trip to
> www.synhouse.com, you'll easily recognize this slightly
> over-exaggerated, marketing-oriented style :-)


Strange - I bought a fully restored Series IIx from John Hill @
Synhouse (as well as many spares and accessories) and he stikes me as
one of the very few NON 'over-exaggerated, marketing-oriented' people
I've dealt with - IMHO quite definitely one of the hardest working and
most honest people in the synth world.

The Series II was based around the Quasar microcomputer and basically
a cludge with most of the functions implemented in hardware - the
Series III is a completely different machine running a very competent
realtime operating system with much more power and flexibility.

That said, and the point I believe John Hill would have been trying to
make - the Series II is more of an esoteric, yet highly musical
machine - whereas the Series III is (still) an awesomely competent
composition tool, but perhaps slighly less 'musical' as an instrument
- because of the way it plays back so accurately - if that makes any
sense.

FWIW - if anyone *is* contemplating buying John's machine then I'd
thoroughly recommend him.

Philip