Thanks for the link, it now shows. It seems not to be visible by default from areas for which no shipping costs have been set.

I don’t think Geddy or Alex have any control over venue pricing or even their own cut, so there is no guilt there. Ticketbastard controls the horizontal, and the vertical, and even though they try to reduce it to a soft blur, we can all see with crystal clarity, that nobody is amused with being abused in the outer limits.

I mean let’s take it further and feel bad for any of us who bought the reissue any number of years ago. Bet hey, what’s a couple grand between friends……. 😉

One of the high points in my synth life was Nick Rhodes answering my question about him not touring with Jupiter 8s anymore…https://duranduran.com/2006/where-fore-art-thou-jupiter-8/

It’s a Moog model.

I was in a music store the other day and there was a Model D ‘discounted’ to $3499. Nearby there was a Poly-D at its usual price of $500. I hadn’t seen the two together before so I took a few minutes to make a comparison. They sounded similar, but remembering that this is in a store with a lot of background noise, I couldn’t judget hat too accurately. Build quality etc. felt very similar: I could not tell any difference between the knobs, keybed, or switches. The switches in particular surprised me because there are thousands of options on the component market and I expected it was one area where the cheaper device might show its shortcomings. I can’t say that the Behringer product felt expensive, so much as the Moog did not. The only real difference I noticed was that the wood casing on the Moog looked a bit more luxurious, a harder wood with a finer grain.

It’s not a scientific test of course, and honestly I’m not sure if the thick sound of the Mini is even that suitable for a polysynth (I somewhat prefer the ‘Japanese sound’) but if I was drawn to this instrument I can’t think of a good reason to pay the collector price unless the brand is more important to you than the musical experience. But I guess they will always price it up to maintain that ‘icon’ halo.

Lest this post seem anti-Moog, I also tried their much more affordable Messenger, and liked it a lot. One of the nicest monosynths released in the last few years. The only thing I didn’t care for was the short (32 note) keyboard – they should have stopped at 37.

It just shows how deep the profit margin is.

My guess is they were mostly selling to Americans.
things aren’t running well in the US
so people have no money left over to buy unnecessary luxury items to dust off.

Sorry, who is Geddy Lee?