Turning our sights away from the old and into the new, below you'll see the rankings of the 10 best-selling new releases from 2019 by number of orders. With the exception of the perpetually in-demand Juno models, most of the vintage bestsellers come from the lower end of the market, where module synths like the Roland JV-1080 still offer a good value to bargain-minded soundscapers. It's a new decade next month anyway, so it's as good a time as any to move the lines. That may seem a bit too recent, but given that "vintage" is a totally subjective descriptor and, in the synth world, there's a certain renewed fetishism for '90s gear, synths like the Korg M1 can rightfully fall into the "vintage" bucket. In the vintage table, we're drawing the chronological cutoff at anything made before 2000. Exceptions like this aside, though, when we separate out just new and used sales, the overall list tends to stay more or less the same. ![]() Similarly, Reverb likely sells fewer new Behringers than gear sites that only sell new instruments, given how many buyers rely on long pre-orders for those units. For instance, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 taking the top slot is likely the result of the limited availability of new inventory for this model at different points in the year, which helped fuel demand in the used market. The above ranking of overall bestsellers includes both new and used sales on Reverb, and in this instance, it's fair to say that our data is probably a bit different from the market at large, given how much used gear sells on our site.
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