I play a very decent set of Deagan vibes at my practice location but my home set is a cheapy Kosth and not very nice sounding at all. I've been thinking of buying a good used set, and had kind of set on $2500 as a budget, not including going and picking them up wherever that would be... I was also pretty intent on a Musser or Yamaha with graduated bars.
I found this set online and I'm not really familiar with this brand. I don't want another cheap sounding piece of crap. Any advice...???
It has graduated bars but it looks no less flimsy than my current set.
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/msg/3554698049.html.
The great thing is they are in my city. I can likely get about $600 for my current set so this would be $1200 (Canadian $) and no delivery cost...
Brad
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Probably the only upside of
urbanovibe Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:44
Probably the only upside of this instrument is the graduated bars (you don't find many graduated jencos). Otherwise I wouldn't recommend it, specially since you already have the parameter set with both the Deagan and the Kosth. It might sound decent... haven't heard a graduated Jenco, but still, it was a cheaper brand so the tuning and intonation are probably not the best. I'd wait for a musser 55 or similar, or a yamaha 2600, or even a premier.
good luck!
Diego
Jenco vibes
Dcramer Mon, 02/18/2013 - 18:35
In reply to Probably the only upside of by urbanovibe
They look exactly like my Jencos and mine are not graduated.
They don't sound bad and are very easy to pack around but I paid only $500 Canadian for mine!
I wouldn't spend that much on a Jenco
Randy_Sutin Thu, 01/31/2013 - 06:24
I would stick with what you have until something better comes along or the price gets better. If he were selling that Jenco for $500, for instance, I think it might make an okay thing to kick around and abuse a bit. By way of comparison, a nearly new Musser M55 sold on Craigslist near here about three months ago for $2000. Granted, that is an insanely low price, but it does happen. I would wait for that.