Not trying to start a flame war, but while I wholeheartedly agree that STS
has greatly improved the exterior cosmetics, this alone being enough of an
undertaking to warrant praise, the changes under the hood are not as evident
from the old days and I take that from my own recent experience of recent;y
repairing a system from the 70s, oner from the 80s fitted with the elusive
Gentle Electric Pitch to Voltage converter and one from the late 90s.
This is not to say that the current new/old engineering methods are not
acceptable - the fact that there are hundreds out there still in operation
and functional from that period being proof of this. But I must tell you,
on the modules I repaired (VCOs, slews, random) systems from these two
periods are much more similar than they are different from each another.
I have heard however that Rex is up to a major redesign of the PCB art and
this I would say would constitute a major upgrade internally and would not
only afford a better system for the supply voltage distribution than daisy
changing, but would easily allow for automated assembly, as the PCB gerber
data integrates with modern day component stuffing machines.
Again, I don't want to start a war here. Everyone is due their opinion, and
this is mine. The new systems are just beautiful - probably the best
looking currently manufactured by anyone and the sound still rings true of
tradition in which the Serge system was founded.
Peter
Bill Sequeira wrote:
has greatly improved the exterior cosmetics, this alone being enough of an
undertaking to warrant praise, the changes under the hood are not as evident
from the old days and I take that from my own recent experience of recent;y
repairing a system from the 70s, oner from the 80s fitted with the elusive
Gentle Electric Pitch to Voltage converter and one from the late 90s.
This is not to say that the current new/old engineering methods are not
acceptable - the fact that there are hundreds out there still in operation
and functional from that period being proof of this. But I must tell you,
on the modules I repaired (VCOs, slews, random) systems from these two
periods are much more similar than they are different from each another.
I have heard however that Rex is up to a major redesign of the PCB art and
this I would say would constitute a major upgrade internally and would not
only afford a better system for the supply voltage distribution than daisy
changing, but would easily allow for automated assembly, as the PCB gerber
data integrates with modern day component stuffing machines.
Again, I don't want to start a war here. Everyone is due their opinion, and
this is mine. The new systems are just beautiful - probably the best
looking currently manufactured by anyone and the sound still rings true of
tradition in which the Serge system was founded.
Peter
Bill Sequeira wrote:
> STS has taken Serge to a completely different engineering and manufacturing
> level from the systems manufactured in the '70s and '80s - anyone with
> panels from those decades can immediately tell the difference.