hi tim,
oops,yes, i meant 80% of the components price.
bakis.


--- Tim Stinchcombe
< timothy@... > wrote:

> Hi Joe, Bakis,
>
> > Timothy, I'm nitpicking, but you forgot to include
> the price of a
> > pair of A138s to mix down the 8 VCA outputs.
>
> Yeah I know - I thought that was being just a little
> _too_ prissy!
> Besides as I was adding it all up...
>
> > > they are STILL TOO expensive,(the buchla
> modules), as,
> > > for $1130 ,you get a doepfer a191(midi-cv plus
> shepard
> > > gen.)and 8 vca's and 8 a110's with a million
> more
> > > inputs, outputs and knobs!
>
> ... I couldn't help but think the same as Bakis
> here! Still
> it's 'horses for courses', and 'you pays yer money
> and you takes yer
> choice'!
>
> doepfer told me that the 80%
> > > of a module's price goes to the knobs and jacks
> and
> > > potentiometers.
>
> If I'm to believe this, it must be 80% of the
> components - the boards
> and faceplates must be a fair proportion of the
> final price, but the
> bulk of the cost of a module must surely be down to
> the labour for
> soldering/screwing it together
>
> so,for a doepfer "barberpole effect",
> > > you pay 1130$ for all these circuits
> > > AND,mainly,physical components.for the buchla
> > > barberpole,where do your $1500 go to the
> circuits,that
> > > are the cheapest parts of a module
>
> Well the 260 obviously has a microcontroller in it;
> for what the 297
> does, perhaps it does too, and so maybe they are
> trying to recoup
> software development costs. Who knows. But it
> _would_ be nice to have
> enough money to be able to justify spending $1500 on
> a single unit!
> (Yasi, we envy you!)
>
> Tim
>
>

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