Although I haven’t gotten any obviously resurfaced SID chips (something that, for one reason or another, does happen often) the majority of SID chips I’ve gotte

Although I haven’t gotten any obviously resurfaced SID chips (something that, for one reason or another, does happen often) the majority of SID chips I’ve gotten off of eBay (sample size <10 for what it’s worth) have been junk; either not working at all, or only partly working. Still managed to get myself a working dual SID configuration with one 6581 and one 8580. But even That is obviously not ideal, since you can’t do cool stereo SID with that, at least if you want to it sound good. I thought maybe it would be OK, but a lot of tracks really need one or the other, the filters are usually pretty mucked up on one or the other. But you know, beggars can’t be choosers. Maybe I could do a stereo setup with one SwinSID. Even though I didn’t grow up with a C64 though, man, nothing really beats the real thing when it comes to SID. It’s a shame it’s so damn challenging to emulate.