For Sale Neve 80s Series Chassis For Sale - Los Angeles

[pinebox]

Hello, this chassis is available with or without the 1272s. All that you see and the aux and routing modules as well. If interested contact Providence Sound and Vision. For more technical questions, you can ask me here. Thank you.

 

[noizetoys]

How much are they looking to get for just the chassis? Didn't they want like $300k or more for the thing fully loaded?

It's awful Purdy!

 

[JW]

Wha? Just an 80 series chassis right? Free if you haul it away? haha

 

[pinebox]

How much are they looking to get for just the chassis? Didn't they want like $300k or more for the thing fully loaded?

It's awful Purdy!

I think the owner originally wanted around 600k for it full of 1073s, at 300k it wouldn't have lasted a day, I saw a short loaded 8068 go for more than that last year, but I dont do any of the selling, I'm just posting it here for the dealers who I do a lot of work for because I would rather see someone buy it and keep it alive than it get parted out and the remainder scrapped.

 

[noizetoys]

It's interesting how back in the day the line and channel amps were pulled out and everything else got tossed in the dumpster to now what used to get tossed goes for $100k. Guess the tariff on aluminum has really had an effect.

I would love to have that sitting in the basement while I put 1272s and 10xx modules together.

"Daddy, what's this?"
"That, sweetie, is your college fund!"

 

[pinebox]

It's interesting how back in the day the line and channel amps were pulled out and everything else got tossed in the dumpster to now what used to get tossed goes for $100k. Guess the tariff on aluminum has really had an effect.

I would love to have that sitting in the basement while I put 1272s and 10xx modules together.

"Daddy, what's this?"
"That, sweetie, is your college fund!"

Yeah, the days of Fairchilds being fished out of radio station dumpsters are never to be repeated. Sometimes I think about how much of a contradiction it is that "vintage" is a modern concept. I guess half the value is that most of them got junked.

 

[pinebox]

Wha? Just an 80 series chassis right? Free if you haul it away? haha

Everything but the 1073s. All the other modules are included, as well as the longframe patchbay and producer panels.

 

[Quantum J Audio]

I understand the economics but, it's a shame it didn't stay as the full console.

 

[noizetoys]

$600k? Hell, $300k? That would take making more records that are released in a year in this music market. That or everyone on the planet would have to stream one of your songs at least 1000 times. Either way, you aren't buying a console like that as 'sound business investment'. Makes as much financial sense as an Uber driver buying a Bugatti.

Still wouldn't mind having it in the basement.

 

[soapfoot]

Hmm, I don’t know if I can agree with that

If you look at the Neve as an asset (as opposed to a sunk cost), the strategy starts to look pretty good. They’re going up in value at a ludicrous rate, and at the same time they drive bookings (I can say from some amount of experience)

We didn’t pay 300k for either of ours, but If you’re booking at 1500/day (not crazy for a nice tracking room in a major market), 200 additional days booked is the break-even point for a $300k investment

Over a ten year time frame, being able to say “we booked an extra 20 days a year because we had an 80 series Neve” is not at all absurd.

Then when the business closes, you sell the console for probably triple your investment, or more.

Seems like a sound investment to me!

In earlier eras consoles were “tech equipment” and a write-off. Now, a vintage Neve is much more like owning prime real estate.