MOTM

Labor. These were all hand built. The Sennheiser used hand-matched filter
sections.

Back then, it was almost impossible to get 1% caps except in a few values.
And, they were huge!

You didn't have op amps (or if you did, they didn't have high gain-bandwidth
product) so
the "actual" versus "theoretical" filter calulation would be 15%-25% off. I
vaguely remember
reading 1 Sennheiser vocoder took 1 technician like 3 weeks to tune up.

Paul S.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Hunsicker" <nate@...>
To: <motm@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [motm] Tibits from the closet


> >3) If you think $2500-2000 is alot for a vocoder, the EMS one (1977 price
> >list) was $20,450!!
> >
> >That's 6.85 new Corvettes!!
> >
> >Paul S.
>
>
> What exactly make a vocoder so expensive? I mean $20,000+ in 1977, Even if
> all the components were made of gold, how could you justify a cost like
> that? The coveted Sennheiser was even more (I think). I can understand I
> high price (it includes filters, envelope followers and vca's for each
> band) but $20,000? Is that all in R&D? -Nate
>
>
>
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