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Best deal.
Sony PCM3348 for 3200.00 with less than 800 hours.
10 years ago, $250,000.00
I really love it overall. The damned cables for it cost more than what the machine cost me.
http://balancedmastering.com
"Listen and Learn"
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| Re: The best deal you ever got buying a.... [message #48914 is a reply to message #48336 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2005 23:54 |
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Well, this definately sounds better than it was. I was at a university in Canada, taking private music lessons in Detroit for 3 years - once after a lesson, and kicking around downtown, I come back to my car window busted, and my horn gone! I was astounded, and thought the worst. After thinking a bit more, I went 'round to the pawn brokers in the area - 3rd place I stop at, I see my horn - tell the owner I'll give him 300 bucks for it, and bought my horn back then and there! Unreal, huh? The kicker is I just bought the horn a few months earlier for 7 grand (brand new), so I figure i got off lucky - I've had insurance on all my gear since that episode...
When I was finishing my undergrad (at another university), I bought a Rhodes 73 with an ibanez stereo chorus for 100 bucks - when I graduated, and was leaving the city (montreal) I didn't have room for it, so sold it (kept the ibanez) for 70 bucks. Fast forward 15+ yrs., and a buddy sells me his "suitcase" 73 for 75 bucks. Not a mark on it, tho could stand a good run-over about now...
PS - raiding the local radio stations has been a habit of better "scroungers" than I - a few 1176's, Spectrasonics 610, and an Amek CIB was salvaged from gathering dust in their basement - unfortunately, it wasn't me that got them...
Great forum Terry!
N. Jay Burr
PlugHead Productions
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| Re: The best deal you ever got buying a.... [message #50677 is a reply to message #48336 ] |
Fri, 11 March 2005 01:57 |
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there's a story i heard about how this fellow in newcastle (audio dealer) was offered to buy a bunch of microphones, which were found in a box outside the local abc studios
it turned out to be 12 u47's with power supplies included
believe it, or not
cheers,
max
sydney, oz
http://www.asylumdreams.com
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| Re: The best deal you ever got buying a.... [message #50722 is a reply to message #48336 ] |
Fri, 11 March 2005 09:05 |
Kendrix
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Registered: April 2004 |
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At the time it wasn't so clear to me it was a great deal.
However, Ive still got the Gretsch Chet Atkins Nashville model bought used in 1968 for 200 bucks - with my paper route money.
Last year I saw one on 47th street in NYC with a 5,000 sticker price on it.
One other item. I had the good fortune to live and work in Tokyo for 5 years in the mid-nineties (great music town).
In Japan western gear is very expensive and Japanese stuff is equal to or sometimes a bit cheaper than in the US. I was just reviving my musical activities at the time. I bought a Mackie mixer in the US and carried it back to Tokyo. Six months later, when affordable digital consoles with automation became available, I traded the Mackie into a dealer in Shibuya for 20% More than I paid for it in the states.
I think thats called arbitrage.
Ken Favata
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