If you are of a certain age (ie enjoyed your youth before ipods took out the top third of your frequency response) then at some point you may well have sold your record collection, to invest in the new format – back when CD technology was the NEW Sh+t! Its funny how your perspective changes but I really specifically remember loving the lack of noise floor with CDs, whereas now I so LOVE the noise floor of vinyl records and analogue processing & tape. But anyway, there came a point, maybe a decade after the records were sold when it became apparent that CDs really werent the sh+t and in fact selling the vinyl was a really, really dumb idea (especially those rare Can records!). So I dont have a term for it & I am sure if i asked google some bright spark made this same rant a decade ago & its called re-objectivising or mid-semi-redundant-technolgical-life-crisis or something… but I have just gone through a very happy week where I have followed the exact same process on a slightly larger scale: replacing analogue synths that I sold back in the early 90s for sod all! Here they are; specimens A and B:
photos borrowed from fantastic vintagesynth.com
Both synths are classics in their own right, even back in the day. In fact I remember clearly when I was at secondary school and the Korg MS10, MS20 & MS50 were released. Oh how i dreamed of them, but the price tag then was akin to lusting after a geostationery space station of my own… Anyway I dont remember who I bought them off, but back in the early 90s I owned a Korg MS20 and a Sequential Circuits Pro One and for some absurd reason sold them for nz$300 each (us$180) and here I am, a decade and a half later, buying them for about three times that price. And I am happy as a pig in sh+t! FWIW if you grew up on a diet of soft synths & don’t appreciate the difference, I will totally agree with you & discourage you from ever owning one. The less people that know the truth the better. Shhhh! There is no substitute.
