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Strobian
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Most people think the earlier revs sound a bit thicker, fatter, etc etc.
I have the Rev. 5 and it sounds plenty fat. In fact for me it sounds just right. Actually, I kept it over a JP8 I found on Islamorada for half the price of the MKS-80 at the time and - I know I risk being taken to task for saying this - found the sounds on the MKS-80 more compelling and up my alley. That in spite of the laggy dodgy imprecise MPG-80 programmer, which I sold many years later to replace it with something a little more stable.
The MKS-80 has balls, regardless of what version. I had a Rev. 4 before I got the 5 and I happen to like the 5 just a little better, but would have loved to have both at the same time to compare them one-vs-one - and maybe keep both.
The Jupiter-8 is huge so if you live in a mansion there is no consideration for things like space. The buttons and especially the sliders on the JP-8 are a notch - or maybe two - above the Jupiter-6. I find I always have to move each slider back and forth a few times before it "unsticks" before I can make precise adjustments and the buttons are also dodgy as hell.. The JP-8 I had was really beat up, but the sliders and buttons were great. I also love the design and the display but in the end The MKS-80 won out, both for the sound and the size factor. Obviously the JP-8 produces great sounds - and in stereo - but the MKS-80 and the (Monophonic) JP-6, which I got a few years later, are more "my" sound. I listen to 80s music a lot, but I am not trying to recreate that sound.
Sorry for rambling.. I still have to decide what to sell or not .. :-(