Weird question. Unless you want to sell it, why is that important for judging how much time you want to spend on it?

Anyway, they sell for 80 to 120€ normally.

derSammler wrote:

Weird question. Unless you want to sell it, why is that important for judging how much time you want to spend on it?

Anyway, they sell for 80 to 120€ normally.

Sadly price does matter for example if it is worth recapping it and save it instead of throw it out, i wouldn't spend my time recapping a vibra card if i just could buy one cheap vs time instead 😉

tabm0de wrote:

Sadly price does matter for example if it is worth recapping it and save it instead of throw it out, i wouldn't spend my time recapping a vibra card if i just could buy one cheap vs time instead 😉

It's sad when people don't have time for their hobby but I understand. I'm the other way around, love spending time with repairs even if it takes days working on a simple clone 386 board.

It's a great card. Dual OPL2 sounds awesome on the few games that support it. Has a bit of distortion, but that can be mostly corrected with mods

Also, despite having a 16-bit edge connector it's still a true 8-bit card and works in PCs/XTs as long as you jumper appropriate IRQ and DMA selections

Miphee wrote:

tabm0de wrote:

Sadly price does matter for example if it is worth recapping it and save it instead of throw it out, i wouldn't spend my time recapping a vibra card if i just could buy one cheap vs time instead 😉

It's sad when people don't have time for their hobby but I understand. I'm the other way around, love spending time with repairs even if it takes days working on a simple clone 386 board.

I would be the same if i hade the time and room 😉 i have spent many hours on other project but it went so far that i had to my work place as storage 😀

if it wont work recap wont be happening at least in a few month anyway 😀

tabm0de wrote:

if it wont work recap wont be happening at least in a few month anyway 😀

I hope your storage conditions will soon improve! 😀
The last CT1330A that sold here was €45 in 2018.

It's worth exactly what someone will pay for it, (plus shipping.) I think you're asking the wrong question.

Do you want to use it? Then yes, it's worth the trouble. If it needs to be re-capped, it takes a couple hours out of some lazy weekend, so get to work. 😀 Do you really have so much to do that your time is too valuable? What are you, the prime minister or something? 😉

If you don't want to keep it, then and only then does the price matter.

That said, regardless of worth, don't throw out a perfectly good card. I wouldn't even throw away a Vibra because of bad caps. Maybe they're not rare now, but they will be. Either fix it, or offload it to someone who will care for it, or hang on to it and sell it when the value increases. Throwing away repairable hardware at this point is just foolish. Someone here would gladly take it off your hands, even if it needed TLC.

They don't come up for sale often. IMO, $100 minimum in clean condition, as much as $150 could be fair.

I spent a good while watching out for a 1330A. Finally nabbed one for around $75 quite a few months ago.

They generally go for $100+ on eBay.

That being said, I would keep it if I were you.

If you're in Sweden prices will be different from the US. In any case this card is valuable from both a pure collecto's as well as a retro gamer's pov. I would definitely keep it. 😀

The last Vibra Cards are among the best ISA Cards ever made, yes they only Feature CQM but they Sound clear and crisp with Headphones.

matze79 wrote:

The last Vibra Cards are among the best ISA Cards ever made, yes they only Feature CQM but they Sound clear and crisp with Headphones.

I think the first Vibra cards (Vibra16S) are the better ones. They have genuine Yamaha OPL chips and also sound clear and crisp. Have not found any faults with for example the CT2890 (Or was it the CT2980?)

CT2890 should be right, I have a CT2260 and CT2810 with OPL and I guess there may be more ^^