BrettBrandon wrote:jlepore wrote:But it seems like an overpriced version of the same thing is in the main forum - and selling it as OLD versions of the software no less. Wonder how that is?
Are they actually trying to sell a pirated version on that board? I can't think of any other reason you wouldn't at least offer the current versions!
Guess he picked which one he wanted to allow to be sold - although, since it is their first post, and a join date of january, who knows if it's just him doing it to make it look like there's still some value left in it.
I was just assuming that they just got ripped off by whoever sold them the system.
EDIT: Just had a look at their website and it is obvious they spend alot of money, I'm pretty sure they were taken advantage of.
When I started mastering at a place in Nashville in the mid 90's, they had a windows 3.1 computer that came with their DAAD digital cassette duplication system. Pics attached.
I freaked when he told me he paid $15,000 for the computer that came with the system that was over $100,000. Way too much for that computer....
A few months later I built him a new computer that was much faster for under $800.00.
They were also using SAW (the early four track version) at that time for transferring the dat's to wave files for duplication.
I quickly replaced that with Cool Edit Pro as the controls and workflow for SAW were completely abnormal.
I don't think they were necessarily taken advantage of. First lets assume that price included at least an audio interface and this person is just not savy and experienced enough to list properly what they are selling. I wouldn't be surprised if that price also included preamps as well. So lets assume it was a complete system for $7K. That's not really that bad for a turn key system depending on how many I/O channels we talking about. Remember that seller has to get paid for their time and one would assume they provided some training and support as well. It might be a nice rack mount computer as well... who knows because again the listing is vague and they clearly don't really know what they are selling.
Same goes for the fact that they are selling it as SAC 2.9. That is probably what is on the computer and they don't know any better that they could update the system to whatever the hell the current number is for free. Of course if someone were to buy it, they could potentially update it themselves as well.
As for your duplication computer let's remember that you're talking about the ere where computer prices dropped A LOT very quickly. I assembled my first DAW around '95 or so. I think it was running Win 95. That machine with a 17" monitor cost me $3K and that didn't include software, audio interface, etc.... a few short years later the next one cost me less than half that. Of course that $3K machine probably ran and I made use of it for close to 10 years before I sent it to the dust pile in the basement and I finally recycled it all not that many years ago.
That $15K computer probably was worth at least $3K at the time it was sold and that probably included some custom software, support, etc.... It's all the things we have essentially given up now days for the privilege of buying some cheap shit computer that will be lucky to run for 4 or 5 years before a major component takes a shit and comes with little to no tech support.
So yeah it was a serious investment, but that's just how quickly technology moved along. And it probably was a going price for such gear when it was purchased. In human years it really hasn't been that long since computers became commodity pricing and they took over doing so many of our everyday tasks. The ipad is only like what 5 or 6 years old? And how many generations of them have there been already?
I don't think you're that old that you don't remember Brett.