terry towelling wrote:Mitch The Jazzy One wrote:......I bought mine few years ago for like 20€ or 30€ because of busted QD drive, for that price it's been really nice addition, but I might have been disappointed if I had paid something like 100€ or even more than that, as it is to me somewhat hit and miss machine.
imagine how disappointed you'd be if you paid $780 for it in 1987. it still smarts.
That depends what other options for sampler I had in 1987 in that price range. The way I think about any purchase is this: "Now I paid this much money for this purchase, I could've bought with that money something else."
For 100€ I could buy for example E-MU ESI 32. While it is 16-bit sampler, it has variable samplerate for some lo-fi sound and might be bit more versatile as all around machine than S-220 is. For sure some one might argue, that the point of having 12-bit sampler is not sound versatility, but that 12-bit sound and it is valid point. But then again you could get S-220 and Akai S950 and sample same sounds into them and S-950 will sound better than S-220 most of the time.
Don't get me wrong. I still like S-220 and it definitely has it place in my studio/workflow/sound, but at same time it is not my go to machine all the time.