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Iperfungus:
Hi guys!!

It's funny to see how many people today is re-discovering our beloved ADA MP-1 and its legendary tone.
This has originated an incredibile increase of selling prices, something that I consider absurd for units that are 30 years old or more and that can explode on your face 2 minutes after you turned them on, unless you did not some serious maintenance, reconditioning them to last another 30 years (that can cost some money, but that's the only good reason for high selling price).

By the way, MP-1 is MP-1 and today it's easy to find some interesting videos on YouTube as well.
Enjoy!















...and some interesting tubes rolling!

rnolan:
Hey Max, again, I see nothing :-( Need to post the link.  Now explode in your face, I take slight exception to LoL  Even with basic maintenance they won't do that.  Interesting, maybe people are wanting to realise the real sound that all the digital modelling etc. is trying to emulate???

Iperfungus:

--- Quote from: rnolan on March 04, 2024, 05:00:50 AM ---Hey Max, again, I see nothing :-( Need to post the link. 

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Done!  :thumb-up:


--- Quote from: rnolan on March 04, 2024, 05:00:50 AM ---Now explode in your face, I take slight exception to LoL  Even with basic maintenance they won't do that.  Interesting, maybe people are wanting to realise the real sound that all the digital modelling etc. is trying to emulate???

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 :lol: :lol: :lol:

You know me...you know I like to exagerate a little...  :banana-dance:

I mean...I would not spend 6-800 dollars or euro to buy something that would require other money for maintenance.
DJC's and other people's experience made us learn some years ago how easy it can be to buy a unit with issues or a non-working one or one that will stop working after few time because something broke.
I had the same experience once: if you remember, I bought a second MP-1 that the seller described as "perfectly working" (and I paid less than 200 euros for that, anyway) and it had a lot of issues...
I ended selling it for less than I paid for it to someone that wanted to restore it.

My main and only one I paid 180 euro for that (and it was almost perfect, notwithstanding its age) and MJMP made a lot of work on it, but I was far away current prices for units that would require some work.
I asked Phil to modify it to be sure it will work with no issues for the next 30 years, but I cannot say when it would have started showing issues without that work.
Jack connectors, potentiometers, resistors, capacitors, operational amplifiers, displays, buttons...all these components are subject to wear or tear over time and they can break...

If I hadn't mine, I would not pay such prices for sure.
But this applies to ANY old preamp, poweramp or FX unit.

I assume that the (good?) attempt to model MP-1 with modelers and plug-ins made a lot of people want to have a real one.
People like Leon Todd made the world rediscover this preamp.
But one should use brain and buy stuff at right prices, not following all the hype that can be generated

Dante:
Max: I fixed all your YouTube links. Instead of using the [url ] and [ /url] tags, use [youtube] and a closing tag with the slash [ / youtube] (without spaces)

Iperfungus:

--- Quote from: Dante on March 04, 2024, 11:20:06 AM ---Max: I fixed all your YouTube links. Instead of using the [url ] and [ /url] tags, use [youtube] and a closing tag with the slash [ / youtube] (without spaces)

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Same here... :D

I used [youtube] tags at first, but Rich cannot see the video previews and I replaced them with the URLs...

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