20 Oct
2018
20 Oct
'18
9:46 a.m.
On 10/20/18 10:41 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
i) There is certainly a very active market in good quality,
current-production keyboards, keyboard kits and keyboard parts. That
market is not just being serviced, it's moving past the niche category.
The level of ongoing development and the vendors' response to customer
input are phenomenal.
The level of "discernment" in the higher tiers of keyboard gear
reminds me a lot of the high-end audiophile market.... I'm mostly deaf
and my hands are scarred, arthritic, and desensitized and I don't play
video games, so I have no useful opinion about either one.
ii) My observation, by no means authoritative, is that the folk who
used those '80s keyboards in the '80s aren't the ones paying top dollar
for them. My grandson dreams of owning a '67 Dodge Charger. A 440cid
'68 was my daily driver for a couple of years, and I don't want one at
all. Same-same.
Doc
From: Al
Kossow
The quality of modern keycaps is poor.
These guys are after mechanical boards with double-shot keytops.
There's something I'm still not quite grasping.
I can see two reasons for people liking the old keyboards:
- i) Higher quality construction
- ii) Connection, through a historial artifact, to an earlier age
Am I missing any?
I can definitely see the first (I myself find many modern keyboards to be
complete crap), but if that's _all_ it is, I'd think there'd be a market for
modern production of quality keyboards - not a large market, true, but I'd
think it would be large enough to be worth servicing? (Unless the cost to
produce such would be so high that there wouldn't be any buyers - but that
seems at odd with some of the prices being mentioned.)
So maybe people _only_ want keyboards that have both i) and ii)?