Actually, if push comes to shove, providing u take care of the shipping, I might be able to do it for under £500. Due to the nature of these things it could take some time as tracking down parts can be tricky. It\u2019s an option. The last one I did cost the guy £380 as a guide
Regards
Ian
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From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:oberheim@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Bim
Sent: 30 April 2010 02:12
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [oberheim] Re: Problem
with OB-Xa - no sound
Ouch.
I really feel for you. I know what you're going thru and it sucks. That older
gear sounds fantastic and you want to play it forever, but you just cant.
I went thru the same thing but with an old Memorymoog converted to a plus,
except my problem was that I had to hit the autotune button 3-4 times a SET. It
had me stymied. I couldnt find anyone in the US who even wanted to touch it,
Big Briar had folded and the only guy that was doing any work was half of Big
Briar - located in Germany - and at the time he wanted $5k to work on it,
modify it from a Plus back to a standard Memorymoog and shipping to and from
Germany (yeah. right. Ship a Memorymoog in any case - I did have a flite case
tho - to Germany and back). I got lucky and got $500 for it for the parts....
Good luck with your OB-Xa.
Bim
--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com,
Charles Massey > wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> I hate to rain on your parade but this machine will drive you
> insane......... I ended up giving mine away after spending a fortune
> on it trying to keep it playing and in tune. It was wonderful when it
> was working but.............
>
>; I ended up buying two Matrix 6R's and an Xpander. They were all very
> good sounding and were absolutely no trouble, even after over 20 years
> of service.
>
> FWIW
>
> Charlie in Florida
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Timmy wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had a perfectly functional OB-Xa which I turned on today and now I
> > get no sound. After turning it on the Patch 1 light blinks several
> > times (like a bad voice in auto-tune would blink) and then nothing
> > happens.
> >
> > LEDs are lit on the board, but pushing buttons does not do anything,
> > meaning none of the functions work, pressing any buttons won't make
> > them light, etc..). No sound comes from the outputs.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
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