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Throw away your solder iron....CyberTwin

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1/19/2001 3:50 PM

Throw away your solder iron....CyberTwin

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM01/Content/Fender/PR/Cyber-Twin.html

"The Cyber-Twin truly is the Holy Grail of all amplifiers," explains Fliegler. "With Cybernetic Amp Design, we've taken musical possibilities to a level never before attainable with one single amp. What we've created is the future of amplifiers."

"C.A.D. literally reconfigures the Cyber-Twin's tone stack, as if there were a tiny robot inside with a soldering iron building each one of the amps," adds Fliegler.

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1/19/2001 4:03 PM
Jeff Stapleton	We are BORG. Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated.

1/19/2001 5:06 PM
Bryan James	yeah why should i through away my soldering iron. I make amps cuase i enjoy it, it's a hobby, something i love(besides i work on computers all day why sould i have to work with one to play my guitar). if i was to through away my iron because of some programable amp i would have never picked it up to begin with. Bryan

1/19/2001 4:23 PM

Who's going to fix this thing if it breaks say ten years from now??? I think the dumps will be littered with these HI TECH amps because it will be cheaper to buy a new one than fix the old, like VCRs. I have bought several computers over the years that have gone obsolete before I got them paid for, not worth what I paid for them now. IMO I would rather have a great amp I'll use for years and keep the effects in a rack where I can easily change them out when something better comes along or something breaks.

1/19/2001 4:56 PM
BrianH	I wonder when they will add these little fender cyber robots to their guitar line.. I can see it now...... "Introducing the "Cyber-Strat",.. little cyber robots that can actually correct your bad playing. Turn on the jimi hendrix cyberbot control, and guess what you sound just like jimi.....etc."

1/19/2001 8:15 PM

You may be missing the point. (Or perhaps the manufacturers are.)

A related story:

I had a Sony ES Series VCR. It's the fancy one with gold lettering, gold plated connectors, high price tag ($550 in 1997)

Early this year it refused to play anymore. I took it into the shop and got an estimate: $175

I went to best-buy and bought the cheapest stereo HIFI VCR I could find. It was $59. It works GREAT! When it breaks (probably early next year), I'll toss it in the dumpster and buy another one.

If the digital modeling manufacturers priced their amps at $99, I guess we'd all buy them! :-)

:-)

1/20/2001 4:31 AM

Jaz:

:vcrs

    I have a ProScan stereo vcr that I bought a few years ago for about $325 and when it dies I will gladly pay $175 to have it repaired... Why, might you ask? Well, it does not have the government mandated circuitry that Macrovision uses for their copyprotection crap and I can make decent copies of practically any tape or DVD. (I have a hunch that the newer ProScan decks will not work for me as this one does.)

    But other than this particular exception, with consumer electronics you can generally buy a replacement for less than the cost of a major repair, and you will probably get more features to boot.

    One reason not to buy the cheapest vcr is that it could damage your tapes when it finally takes a dump. But if you just rent from Blockbuster, what the heck... let their insurance pay for the damaged tapes.

--Thanks!

Steve Ahola

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