Great, then some of us on this forum will be able to profit from top-notch rigs at wholesale prices. Wasn’t th Mini Model D only worth $150 - $300 Americal dollars, twenty years ago?
don’t remind me, as that is when I virtually gave mine away as there just were no interested buyers in “that old school junk” as I was repeatedly told by the retailers.
I remember seeing Prophet 5’s going for $200 in the paper around 84 and thinking, who would want that? Use that $200 on a new DX7!! LOL.
Bet you’re eating those words with a side of baked beans, Mike.
You better believe it. That was the lowest price I ever saw. They were also as high as $500 or so. My first synth ever was a Juno 106 that I bought in 1986. I never did buy a DX7. It got old real quick playing it at the music store.
Beleive it or not, the first Moog I ever bought was the Taurus I pedals I just got. Shame on me! I would still like a MiniMoog, & a Voyager. I’ll also pickup the 12 stage phaser. I used to use an old sampled Moog bass patch on my Emax, and that’s what I used instead of a Mini. Shameful, I know.
But Moog is heavy on my want list. I almost have my Oberheim fix…got my 2 SEM 4 Voices and my Matrix 12, now I need an OBXa and an OBX. Got my Yamaha CS-80 restored by Scott Rider now, and I have my CP-70B piano. I still need my Arp 2600 and Odyssey but I do have 4 String Ensembles (2 early, 2 late) and a Quadra which is only good for it’s killer phasor. Need a P5 or P10 and maybe a VS. The I have some other non-vintage synths like my dinasour Emax SE that I’ll leave out.
Unfortunately, I also collect vintage guitar amps and NOS tubes, and also studio outboard gear. So my cashflow gets watered down quick! I can’t believe how much old Marshall’s are going up. A few years ago I bought a mint 1965 JTM45 for 2.9k, and now it’s worth over 8k. So I’m done buying old amps it looks like and I can now buy more synths when I’m not stocking up on tubes.
I’m lucky that I’m still single and can blow money on this stuff, but I’m unlucky that I’ve had to spend tens of thousands of dollars fighting this damn late stage Lyme disease I got from a little bastard tick!! I would have my want list covered several times over if it weren’t for that little damn bug. But I’m not complaining really. When we look at the world around us we all very lucky to have the things we have right now. 
I’ve got a Model D, Prodigy, Mg 1 and (kinda rare) 3 band Parametric EQ !
And of course the only moog thing no one has yet mentioned.. My Moog tattoo ( not actual product and no… not for sale .. Even if you get one, I had it PHIRST !) just poking fun at yall… Anyone going to Moogfest?
Nick
The Volt per Octaves 
It could happen again if
- Musicians start complaining that analog doesn’t sound like a piano or a rhodes
Someone introduces the next “DX7” or cheap “sampler” that gives these frustrated analog users the sounds they want
They dump their analogs to fund purchases for their new toy
I can’t see that being repeated.
There is also this scenario: if VA or softsynths get good enough you can’t tell the difference from real analog, then folks will start dumping them because vintage analog is expensive to keep running (repairs, obsolete parts, etc). Judging from the proliferation of vintage guitar amps over modeling amps and the achilles heel of softsynths/VAs (the filters), that’s a long shot.
Look what happened to the vintage Minimoog market when the Voyager came out. They peaked at $2500 at the Voyager release (late 2002), now they’re averaging $1500. The vintage value was driven down by the availability of a new equivalent with modern features like MIDI and patch storage.
I think the best chance of seeing better vintage prices are reissues using modern parts and features, but reissuing a P-5, an OB-X, or a MM would require more R&D than it would be worth.
An eight voice OB-X listed for $5995 in 1979 dollars and doesn’t have MIDI or multitimbrality; a sixteen voice Andromeda lists for $3495 in 2004. The bar keeps going lower and lower as the years progress and musicians expect more features for less money. It’s a cutthroat market.
Building a reliable good sounding polysynth at an attractive price is really really hard. Monosynths are a lot easier, witness the growing offerings in the market in the last five years. The closest thing to any of the the vintage polysynths is the Omega-8 and Andromeda, and these aren’t exactly selling in huge numbers. As fat as the Omega-8 sounds, the biggest gripe I hear about is the price.
The only chance you’ll ever see more poly analogs in the future with the quality we expect is if a small boutique outfit produces them in small numbers at outrageous prices. It may get to a point when this may occur. You do see this happening with modulars right now. Although the guitar amp market is very different in many ways, most particularly that it’s infinitely cheaper to build an amp like the classic vintage amps, there are some similarities to be noted.
One big questions in the vintage amp market is why they haven’t skyrocketed like the vintage guitars. A 1959 sunburst Gibson Les Paul in mint condition can fetch 250k now. However, the holy grail amps are still topping out at 15-20k. And it’s the amps that have most of the influence on sound. But the amps are starting to make a move…but I don’t think they’ll ever approach the guitars. A very common 60’s Strat fetches 5 figures.
I have a Model D and a Modular …
I have a Model D and a Modular …
Wait, you’re actually on topic! 
Sorry … 
I have a Performer, 251, 351, 101,103, and 105 a Micro and a Rogue.
The last two are for sale currently so my collection will be more modest sooner than later.
No need to apologize! I should apologize - I was being sarcastic, but not to you!
Tell us more about your gear…
Wait, you’re actually off topic! 
I was also trying to be sarcastic so there is no need for you to apologize either! 
Well, there isn’t much to tell really. I’m nowhere near the amazing setups that previously have been presented in this thread by MC and mee3d!
I currently own a Minimoog Model D (S/N #10432) and a Moog Modular System 35. I used to have a Memorymoog but I sold it a few years ago.
Minimoog Voyager SE.
I don’t have too much either… 2 MG-1’s, a Source (arriving monday!) and I used to own an Opus 3 but sold it due to problems that I couldn’t fix.
1978 Model D - Spending enough time on moogmusic.com to want to buy some new toys!
just bought a Voyager AE (S/N 93) - hopefully will get it the end of this week or early next.
1970 ModelD, 1980 Prodigy and a 2002 Etherwave Sig…
The current Sundae Club album available here features these fine machines:
Streetly Mellotron M400, Rhodes Suitcase 88, Yamaha CP80, Hammond A100, Leslie 145, Wurlitzer EP200, Moog Etherwave Signature Theremin, No.1 Electronics Theremin prototype, Minimoog model D, Moog Prodigy, Korg micro-preset, Korg microkorg, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Datanomics Synthi VCS3 Mk2, Datanomics Synthi DK2, Russell Hobbs K2r, Hohner Clavinet D6, Octave Cat SRM II, Yamaha DX7, Roland JX-8P, Akai S1000, Roland SVC350 vocoder, Arp Quartet, Stylophone 350S, Casio VLT-1, Hohner Melodica, Estey Reed Organ style 62 (1881), Yamaha G1 grand piano, Suzuki Omnichord OM-27, Gibson Les Paul Custom, Squier Stratocaster, Peavey Foundation, HMV portable gramophone, Erich Werner violoncello (1979), Musikus-Studio Chromatic Elite glockenspiel, Zojirushi CD-JSH30. O
OK OK… I know… “Off Topic…”
HRx