OBERHEIM SYNTH

10-4 on the upkeep being only for the wealthy on an OBXa!!!!!!!

I once sent mine from Florida to San Francisco on a Greyhound bus to 
get it to the best OBy repair facility in the country.  $$$$$$$$$

I finally GAVE it away.  I have many gray hairs because of that SOB!  
but when it was working, it was a monster.

I still have two Matrix 6-R's and an Xpander so the OBy sound is still 
in my studio.

Charlie


On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Les Lambert wrote:

> I've got two cards, but they both got a bit robbed
> before I got them. Multiple Curtis chips required,
> probably more expensive than we care to be involved
> with.
> Also it's worth bearing in mind that fixing these
> synths up for reliable operation is really only for
> the wealthy. The Molex connectors don't last, the
> power supplies tend to fry their diode bridges etc.
> The build quality of the boards was excellent, but
> some of the service engineers have caused some
> problems for the current admirers.
>
> They do sound fantastic, only the Memorymoog does it
> better, but are equally difficult to keep functional,
> and cost abot three times as much to buy.
> Nobody seems to have made the noises available any
> other way either.
> The bottom line is, can you afford to own it? It's a
> bit like an old Jag XK I think.
>
>
> --- gil_we <gilwe@...> wrote:
>
>> I've been given the opportunity to buy an OBXa which
>> has one missing
>> voice board, for rather cheap... Do you think it
>> would be possible to
>> find a voice board for it ? any source ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>