I owned a DX-7. I bought it for $200, loved it for years, then stupidly lent it to a friend of a friend. They went on to form a moderately successful band [1].

I owned a DX-7. I bought it for $200, loved it for years, then stupidly lent it to a friend of a friend. They went on to form a moderately successful band [1]. I now can't replace it for much less than $2000. The claim that you can recreate "any sound" is a probably true (I had some crazy patches), but you have to realise that most "sounds" are completely horrible and unappealing. This synth, unlike most (even analog) synths, had very few limitations on parameters. It was ridiculously easy to make horrible sounds on this thing! For this reason, it will remain a classic. It's a true hacker's synth. The vast majority of it's output will be trash, but every now-and-then you hit gold. You just need to remember to save it (and do a sysex dump) when you get something good! [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVT_(band) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVT_(band)