Oh, you reminded me I did the same. That still hurts. Though at the time I was a student and moving around a lot, including abroad, so keeping them all was not an option.
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Ouch, I feel for you my friend. Reading that made me feel bad for you.
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…and that swedish roller-lamp 
Still have mine too.
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That’s a dope desk!
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Wow, I was just doing my semi annual Vectrex search on eBay and Google last night. I LOVE Vectrex. Such a cool little box. Whenever my Dad and I went shopping at the mall when I was a kid, I always ended up at the electronics store playing Vectrex. Wanted one so badly but ended up with an Atari 2600. Which I loved and have rebought and sold many times over the years.
Vectrex prices are sky high and getting higher so for a while I satisfied my fix by playing the emulations on iPad. Not the same. You need the box, the controllers and especially the overlays for the true experience. Congrats on that score!
Also, thanks for reminding me about Nightsatan, one of my favorite band names ever. 
My jam:
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Waldorf Blofeld
Hope to get one again someday
Nightsatan might be the best band (performer?) name i’ve ever heard.
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original SP1200 w/ Forat LED screen and mods, Korg MS-10 + MS-20, Ursa Space Station, Eventide H910, 73 Pbass, Collings 290, Divided by 13 JRT, Chase Bliss Gen Loss mk1, MPC 3000LE Forat modded, TB-303, Retro Sta-Level, Atomic Squeezebox, Yamaha FS1R, Jupter 8.
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Do it! Get a Blofeld while they’re still around!
Somehow it’s been forgotten, but it’s one of the good synths. Has its own character, different from some of the other wavetable machines. And such a small footprint.
I am the voice of Satan. Follow my command.
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Yeah, no one wants them. I looked at selling mine locally for a minute (it’s a big boat as you know, no way I want to ship it)—but when I took a look on Craigslist, there was already another one for sale! So here it sits.
It might be a classic, but it’s useless to most musicians. Looks like a Triton rompler but isn’t (“what? no piano? no drums? no sequencer?”), and not a great imitative synth by 2024 standards (moog, rhodes, etc.); everyone has access to good softsynth solutions now.
You have to be someone who loves sitting around and patching the extremely generous Z1 synth architecture—which turns out to be a rare desire. It’s a wonderful instrument in its own way, nothing quite like it.
Someday I hope to be able to give a great deal to some nerd who will use the thing, but I don’t even want to bother with that now. Should bust it out and play it.
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Jupiter 8 (non DCB)
Jupiter 4
60’s Rickenbacker 360/12 in burgundy
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I regretted selling machinedrum and monomachine the first 2 or 3 times but not the last. Same with my whimsical raps synth modules. Sometimes I regret selling my Matriarch, but I feel like (in my hands) it covered such a narrow range.
I do regret selling a moog Clusterflux back in the day, but not because I miss it, just because of the prices they go for now.
I regret loaning stuff out more… Most of the stuff I lent out I didn’t want back but all of the stuff I lent out I never expect to get back.
You never know when there will be a demand for a particular vintage synthesizer. I saw the value of one of my synthesizers dropped to $100. Then a young popular professional musician started using one and the price increased with the demand. I was able to sell mine for a fair price to both the buyer and the seller.
Word will get out and soon the resellers will be scooping these up cheap and the price will continue to increase for a while.
For sure break it out and play it every now and then or at least turn it on to keep the capacitors healthy.
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C64, Amiga and my PowerMac G3
calrec minimixer. amazing small format. weighed a ton. minimal eq that was impossible to make sound bad. direct outs w/lundhal transformers, 4 sends.
eventide eclipse
there’s a handful of eurorack modules i’d wished i’d held onto. cyclebox2 + expander, macromachines omnimod, makenoise mimeophone… ugh. should’ve just put them in boxes on a shelf for when the urge to get a few LPGs and a sequencer became too much to not buy a small case and have a go w/it all.
but the calrec is really the only thing where i think i was so stupid to sell it… but it was in 2007/8 after the banks broke the world and i needed the $$$$.
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Ouch……looks like the mixer of my dreams
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Yes ! I have yet to find similar synth around the same price-point. 25 Voices with 16 Midi addressable tracks if I remember correctly !
And the way it sounded was truly in its own category, it was easy to make it cut right through most mixes !
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My huge air conditioner. Ive suffered numerous summers since needlessly.
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I suspect the Blofeld is a little modern masterpiece, and like most good things we won’t truly appreciate it til it’s gone.
I don’t use mine all the time, I’m more of a blockhead analog guy, but whenever I turn it on, it’s like … “Yeah, that’s sweet.”
Sold the Modwave, kept the Blofeld.
RE the original topic: I don’t regret selling anything, but I think that’s because I emotionally reject any synth before selling it: “You’re not welcome here anymore.” I’m a hoarder so it takes a lot for me to sell an instrument unless I’m broke.
I almost regret selling the Digitone, but not quite. I’d love to see a DN2 similar to the DT2, with a more flexible audio/MIDI track architecture and longer patterns, similar to DT2, to possibly tempt me out of my current “no-buy, no-sell” policy …