Did anyone here buy the auction of 29 x 8580R5's?

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I didn’t post before as I was bidding myself and didn’t want to end up in a bidding war with another MIDIbox user but there has just been an auction on Ebay of 29 NEW (old) 8580R5’s.

The final price was £875.00 (998EUR) !!!

The guy says he found the tubes in his loft and thought that somebody might have a use for them.

Personally I think they have probably paid a bit over the odds as individual (tested) ones sell occasionally for about £25 each.

I was probably being a bit hopeful with my maximum of £350 :slight_smile:

Cheers

Phil

EDIT: Here is the link http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150539424415&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:GB:1123

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Omg, i wish i found 29 on my loft.

Anyways, i am not sure the price was over the odds. Recently Amigula’s 8580 sales have been around 30 euro’s aswell. I have even seen one go to 67 euro :frantics:

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whoa - my estimate is that they will be worth more than their weight in gold in a few decades :slight_smile:

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I don’t think they will… Once the prices actually start to get really ouchy it’ll inspire a lot of people to make 99.9987% perfect clones in FPGA/…

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I don’t think they will… Once the prices actually start to get really ouchy it’ll inspire a lot of people to make 99.9987% perfect clones in FPGA/…

Or maybe someone makes a discrete smd clone :ahappy:

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bah all those clones will never reach the superior audiophile qualities of those ceramic cased 6581r1s - they protect against cosmic rays, you know!

http://www.digital-circuits.org/sid/CSG%20Micrographs/6581R4/6581R4-fulldie.jpg

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I still want to get my hands on the masks and make exacting duplicates. It shouldn’t be too terribly expensive to tool up for a 30-year-old design.

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Nah I guess, $20-50 will get you all the equipment and plans.

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Hehe,

I can say that it was a close fight, but unfortunately I didn’t win :slight_smile:

And actually I thought that is is a little bit strange that this item wasn’t mentioned here before … for a good reason I think, but it hasn’t helped.

Cheers

Matt

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I still want to get my hands on the masks and make exacting duplicates. It shouldn’t be too terribly expensive to tool up for a 30-year-old design.

I am sure that the thought “if only someone would make new sids” crossed the minds of many of us. But to be honest to get a hold of the mask would be quite an achievement on it’s own. Then having them produced in a fab at reasonable costs, well that would be nearly impossible. The market for sid chips isn’t big, only us idiots are willing to buy them. And with releasing a couple of thousand chips on the market, prices would pummel.

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Yeah. That would really hamstring our elite status :geek: If you could buy a SID in every corner drugstore and ordinary, everyday people actually had any idea what the Hell I’ve been babbling about for the past year :wacko:

:wink:

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well and don´t tell the chinese, that sids, when properly crushed, crumbled and boiled with chicken eggs are actually increasing sp%$m production