lol Alan
..my opinion is everything now seems to have 'a loss', but its really not. its
just whats being said.
do you think the value of the first fm synths of the world will ever be
unvaluable? naaahhhh!
its always funny, but the buyer and the store both have their own prices.
...my price is i keel you if take my DX11 away!! haha!

Nicole, how many Polys do you think would it take
to make a PolyPhonyPharm of MoPhatts?





--- In YamahaDX@yahoogroups.com, "alan_probandt" <alan_probandt@...> wrote:
>
> I've been following the prices of low-end (<$200) tone modules on eBay for
about three years. For the past 18 months, they have been steadily rising;
generally up about 30% for the same item over several years. For the TX81Z, the
average price has almost doubled from $30-$40 to $60-$80. As we all know, they
are wonderful synths and no one is making any more of them.
>
> But in the past week, I have been winning a lot of eBay tone module auctions
with bids that are about 25% lower than the average price of the past few
months. I picked up an E-Mu Mo'Phatt for $61 and yesterday an identical
Mo'Phatt actually sold for $49! They normally have final bids around $120.
>
> Granted the Mo'Phatt is a weird tone module. But it does have 1024 internal
samples, arpeggio generators, 12dB morphing filters, dual effects DSPs,
real-time controllers, and MIDI control over every possible parameter. So even
if it is a just a box of sound effects (as it is derided to be), it still has
potential according to its specs alone.
>
> I also got a mint-condition Yamaha TG77 for $145. I haven't seen one sell
below $150 for several years.
>
> Are the tone module prices falling? Is this a ripple of the general
collapse of the economy? Or, is it because these auctions are ending in the
middle of the morning when no one is on-line to eBay to bid on them in real
time? I time all my eBay auctions to end at 7:30pm Pacific time. Which is
10:30 East Coast time. People there are still awake and at their PCs online.
The West Coast people have finished dinner and are sitting down to their PCs for
a serious shopping session.
>
> Should we dump our 'surplus' tone modules now or hang on to them for a few
more years? Do you think that the prices on Yamaha DX units are going to rise
or fall in the next year? And by how much?
> As the economy continues to contract will the prices of the high-end modules
like the Yamaha Motif series fall by 40% or more? Or will they stabilize and
possibly rise?
>
> Any thoughts? Anyone need a spare Mo'Phatt?
>