Dave Smith Instruments Prices

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:42 pm

Does anyone know why DSI synth prices in the UK have suddenly risen?

The Pro 2 was £1200 last week its now £1600
The Prophet 12 was £2000 and now its £2400

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 4:52 am

RKfan wrote:Does anyone know why DSI synth prices in the UK have suddenly risen?

The Pro 2 was £1200 last week its now £1600
The Prophet 12 was £2000 and now its £2400

My EU dealer indicates that also Yamaha and Roland are planning to raise their european prices.. soon..

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 4:55 am

RKfan wrote:Does anyone know why DSI synth prices in the UK have suddenly risen?

The Pro 2 was £1200 last week its now £1600
The Prophet 12 was £2000 and now its £2400

My local dealer indicates that also Yamaha and Roland are planning to raise their european prices.. soon.. and that Korg will certainly do so also... (thats what he said)

Butt hen that was on a moment i had to decide wether or not to buy a keyboard, so it could be part of its way into pushing me to buy (which was what i tought it was untill recently i kept starting hearing more about rising pricess)

Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:10 am

RKfan wrote:Does anyone know why DSI synth prices in the UK have suddenly risen?

The Pro 2 was £1200 last week its now £1600
The Prophet 12 was £2000 and now its £2400

Currency exchange rates? New Taxes? Boosting profits on poorer sales figures?

BobTheDog · Post by **BobTheDog** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:21 pm

Because the Thomann prices have gone up due to the Euro/Dollar changes.

UK Shops tent to price match against Thomann.

Mr_SamDoogie · Post by **Mr_SamDoogie** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:20 pm

http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusines ... s.cnnmoney

When the going gets tough the tough gets going music industry has to adapt in this kind of situations

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:00 pm

Great link thanks!

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Sun Apr 05, 2015 8:05 pm

Its the Exchange rates

Sterling isn't doing that well against the Dollar currently.

It doesn't help that parliament has been dissolved in the UK and we have a general Election coming up,This also affects the countries Economics and trade abroad it did the same the last time we had an election.

You'll find that currency strength rates in the UK will change again after this period.

so if your planning on buying any DSI(or anything from the States) in the UK I would hold off till the end of May,

Euro Rates against the Sterling shouldn't really see any significant change.

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:52 pm

I am going to have to wait - was going to be a birthday present in June. If the price stays that high (note that the Sub 37 is still the same price as it was) then I'll have to think of an alternative.

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:51 am

RKfan wrote:I am going to have to wait - was going to be a birthday present in June. If the price stays that high (note that the Sub 37 is still the same price as it was) then I'll have to think of an alternative.

You may find that many of the items that have gone up are at the new buy in price for the retailers and they don't hold any in stock.

Some retailers may have the synth in stock like the Sub37 in which case the prices might not have altered until they've sold the older stock.

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:21 pm

Well, a Sub37 is about 600 Euro cheaper than a Pro2 - and is very comparable in spec - so DSI ARE inherently very expensive ( a Pro12 is over 3300 Euro now).

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:23 pm

Kevin Nolan wrote: so DSI ARE inherently very expensive ( a Pro12 is over 3300 Euro now).

Not really when you consider the Voyager price,and thats only Monophonic...

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:48 pm

I remember being so excited at MusikMesse when they announced they made a polyphonic Voyager. Visions of new MemoryMoogs flashed through my mind, until the guy explained that basically for each every extra note of polyphony you have to buy/add an extra Voyager...
How many voices is the Prophet 12 again? Is it 12? So 12x2800 or so...

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:45 pm

Kontrol49 wrote:
Kevin Nolan wrote: so DSI ARE inherently very expensive ( a Pro12 is over 3300 Euro now).
Not really when you consider the Voyager price,and thats only Monophonic...

Fair point !!

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:02 pm

Not sure its exchange rates.

Last week I was in a music store in Scotland. I asked abot the price rise. They didnt know about the reasons but they did say they were hard to get hold of and they thought that the current distributor may be being replaced.

so on Sunday I looked at the dsi forum and some contributors had referenced this post. As I was reading what they were saying access to these posts was interrupted. Went back to look today and cant find any of those posts.

I hope this doesn't mean something is up at dsi - Dave Smith is my absolute hero.

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