Anyone want a nice pair for 60K?

by **tunetown** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:17 am

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/gearslut ... 251-a.html

Wow

Cheers

by **Chinagraf** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:27 am

Man I saw those over on GS. While it is amazing to see those vintage mics in pretty much mint condition I think it's a little sad they have been stowed away in boxes rather than making great music. It also a sham e that they will most likely go to a collector and remain hidden away instead of doing what they were made to do..

by **heathen** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:14 pm

Yeah well that's only like $100,000 AUD. Any takers? Nice mics though.

by **Aearth** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:11 pm

Saw that. If he had two pair I would have gone for it but that's tuff for him, he missed out on a sale.

nIC

by **tunetown** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:51 pm

Cmon nIC, just get 'em. Your the gear guy. I want to hire them off you for $50 a week each. I'll need 'em for about 2 weeks. At that rate you'll have them paid off in about 170 years.

;-p

by **Aearth** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:34 pm

tunetown wrote:Cmon nIC, just get 'em. Your the gear guy. I want to hire them off you for $50 a week each. I'll need 'em for about 2 weeks. At that rate you'll have them paid off in about 170 years.

;-p

I'm thinking $50 per hr min one month.

nIC

by **13thbeach** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:21 pm

I understand that prices of vintage gear are always going up, but really this is getting out of hand. They are microphones, and that's it.
Do you really think that the regular radio listener would notice the difference between a $100K mic compared to a $5K mic. I seriously doubt it.

That said, they are a great example of vintage microphones and I'm sure they sound amazing.

Thats my rant over..

by **TimS** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:14 pm

13thbeach wrote:Do you really think that the regular radio listener would notice the difference between a $100K mic compared to a $5K mic. I seriously doubt it.

I agree Matt.. especially even more if the media is MP3 format..

by **Chris H** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:57 pm

I think there will come a time when the price of some vintage gear will actually drop back to a more realistic level. It's a fad and part of it is driven by those in the industry for a long time, finding ways to survive when they can't survive anymore on recording alone.

by **13thbeach** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:05 am

I've bought and sold a lot of vintage gear over the last few years and I've come to learn that
an item is only worth what someone is willing to pay...at the time its for sale.

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Anyone want a nice pair for 60K?

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