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Huge synth head here. He will be missed. The Korg remakes of the Odyssey are great machines for those not wanting (or having the money) to dive into vintage madness. Now Korg should reissue the 2600 in his memory. For under $1500..

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Former 2600 owner, and aspiring current owner (although Arturia is keeping the itch scratched for now), I think this would be viable for Korg. TTSH kits were around for a while. You could get one built for 3500, 1000 for parts. Korg purchasing could probably do way better.

The MS-20m kit's sales were slow enough that they had a blowout at the end of production - not an encouraging sign for Korg, in terms of making a relatively inexpensive 2600 reissue.

Behringer, on the other hand, is likely on the case.

I don’t remember that at all. In fact I think in Europe they sold out really quickly as it is the ultimate model and although expensive, was still sought after.

I had my eye on it in a couple of places, but I was being very good about not buying another analog monosynth. Towards the end, you could buy a new-in-the-box kit for $899 (and you could probably call and get an additional 15% off). By comparison, when it was announced, list price was $1600, street price was $1200.

Double-checking my memory, Reverb listings from 2017 are showing it selling secondhand for $700-$900.

More recently, the last one that sold on eBay went for $1500+, and the one that's on Reverb now is listed, quite absurdly, for about $2500.

I was in the middle of some really expensive construction at the time, and just didn't have any room for non-essential spending.

> The MS-20m kit's sales were slow enough that they had a blowout at the end of production

Really??? God how could I miss that :(

Pretty sure Behringer are either already on it, or thinking seriously about it.

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