It got me wondering, the EMS Synthi AKS is a pretty simple machine when you look under the hood, just three boards, a bog standard reverb tank, a couple of tinny speakers and a very shite plastic case that bends and cracks if you look at it funny, not to mention a keyboard that a toy Casio would put to shame. So how and in what world can anyone justify paying upwards of 12k for one? I mean you can make the argument that a Monet is just some canvas and wood all you like, and yes it's more than the sum of its parts I agree, but when things start going for insane amounts over what the parts and intellectual property would cost you have to start wondering.
But anyway my point is, even if you did justify the outlay, what's to stop situations changing and they come back into (decent levels of) production at a fraction of the price? I don't see why it isn't on the cards with the popularity of these things, never made any sense to me to be making them piecemeal like that. In fact I'm pretty sure the privileged few people that actually are getting new AKS's after waiting like 15yrs are paying less than half of what they are going for on the used market now.
Any thoughts?
