By Ed Driscoll · April 6, 2006 09:12 PM
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All You Need Is Ears
Found via The Professor, Thomas Dolby reveals his current musical arsenal:
I have never calculated the cost of all this gear. If someone is feeling industrious, please add it up and post it here. I’ll tell you what though, it’s a lot of kit for the money when you consider my first Fairlight cost $120,000 in 1982 and did a hell of a lot less.
Just to put into perspective how drastically the cost of musical equipment has lowered--and how far the technologically has advanced--you can put a
Fairlight synthesizer into your PC not for $120,000...but for $180.