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bbecause hopefully i'll have the opportunity to buy something 
that's much more important to me very soon. it works fine though.




--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Patrice JACQUOT" 
<Jacquot.Patrice@w...> wrote:
> It's surely the best way to have an idea....
> But why do you want to sel it if it's working good ?
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: tenaciousdave123 
>   To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:33 PM
>   Subject: [Simmons Drums] Re: value of my sdx?
> 
> 
>       maybe i should put it this way......does anybody want to 
make me 
>   an offer? My e-mail is tenaciousdave123@y...
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>   --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Patrice JACQUOT" 
>   <Jacquot.Patrice@w...> wrote:
>   > Hi Dave ,
>   > It might depend what you expect & who you are  ...
>   > I've seen 1 year ago an SDX kit for sale around 600 £ ...that 
was 
>   a full option 10 pads kits (in perfect shape) from a famous UK 
>   drummer...
>   > In the same time I've seen a deutsch fellow trying to sell an 
SDX  
>   brain with only  4M° of Ram if I remember well, around 1500£ ... 
He 
>   pretended knowing what it was & thought it would justify his 
>   price ...
>   >   
>   > For example in 94, I bought my New SDX (10 pads & Os package & 
SEQ 
>   etc...) from Dave SImmons ,& I paid around 2500£... 
>   > When I wanted to buy a second one Dave proposed me  to built 
>   anotherone for 1200£, because it was a second one & because it 
was 
>   me .
>   > But that was a New one , & 10 years ago ...
>   > Did the SDX became more rare or more demanded since then ...???
>   > 
>   > I've seen in 98/99 some advertising SDX for 700 or 800 £ 
icluding 
>   fly cases & 10 pads  etc...
>   > That was  when the S5000 / S6000 AKAI samplers just went out 
with 
>   some High quality Filters ...
>   > 
>   > I suppose the right price will be what people will be ready to 
pay 
>   for & if you accept it ...
>   > 
>   > It's anyway  a rare piece of history , with some terrible 
filters 
>   & audio converters...a great design & video interface... but 
with 
>   some limitations due to the fact that the hardware couldn't 
evolve 
>   (the Ram & HD ...) & that the OS even the latest one has some 
>   terriffic Bugs that you need to know if you don't want to erase 
all 
>   of your Kits/sounds by saving some new ones...
>   > the pads have this incredible Zoning Assignations but a very 
poor 
>   dynamic, a painful touch & some rare (& dying) FSRs ... 
>   > But the form stays magic , last year I finally I even bought 
an 
>   XRack instead of a laptop ... Good choice or not ...
>   > I suppose an irrational choice instead of anything else ...
>   > You need to find an irrational buyer (I mean someone like me 
who 
>   dreamt by hearing Bill Bruford with its SDX for example ...) to 
sell 
>   it at its best price otherwise it will be the lower price which 
can 
>   only be justify by curiosity  .
>   > Or that famous guy wwho want that famous Sound ! But everybody 
>   don't necessary know that famous sound ...
>   > 
>   > so what's the price for all that ???   I still wonder too ...
>   > I love it & hate it so much in the same time !
>   > 
>   > Hope that helps !
>   > Patrice.
>   >   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   >   From: tenaciousdave123 
>   >   To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com 
>   >   Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:16 AM
>   >   Subject: [Simmons Drums] value of my sdx?
>   > 
>   > 
>   >      anybody here know what the value of my sdx kit might be? 
It 
>   is the
>   >   brain in a custom road case. 6 tom pads, a snare pad,and a 
kick
>   >   pad(which isn't an sdx pad but still works.) the entire 
original 
>   disk
>   >   library. the latest O.S.,the entire manual, and the 
sequencer 
>   manual.
>   >   does anybody know how much that might be worth?
>   > 
>   > 
>   >      thanks  
>   > 
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