My new idol has pedal extremeties of clay...
Hey, it's all good, Careyn. I'm all for you buying all that stuff and I'd certainly love to have a few of the pieces I've played with along the way -- I
kick myself hard every time I think of the Mini-Moogs I could have bought for $300-$500. I mean,
that makes me want to cry... drifting oscillators, leaky caps and all... (And one of my buddies did just that, buying and selling 'old' analog [and 'vintage' digital, even] synths, brokering, and trading, all through the late 80s and into the mid 90s. He kept himself alive buying dirt cheap and selling at increasingly higher prices. He was certainly someone helping drive the cost of such vintage gear up. Like a real estate agent flipping houses.
)
But, bonhomie aside, let's
face it, you started this thread with a big, ugly head of steam and managed to indirectly insult a lot of folks who don't necessarily see things the way you see them
now.
You made sweepingly broad, absolutist pronunciations that essemtially implied that folks, some or even many of whom probably have
more and deeper experience in both the analog
and digital worlds, don't know what they're doing and that they're a bunch of sheep.