Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

XL7s (and other Command Stations) come up on ebay all the time, 
typically for around $450 or less.  Buy from a seller with good 
feedback and a long track record of sales, and its a fairly safe 
transaction.  Ditto with ROMs.  The real issue is that you've bought 
into a dead-end product in terms of future ROMs, etc.  Not a big 
deal to me -- I bought my PX7 and ROMs for the sound it could make 
at that time.  Emu will probably continue to service broken ones for 
a few years, so you're okay there but overall they seem to be very 
reliable.  No worse really than buying a vintage synth, actually a 
bit better because it hasn't been out of production all that long.

D7

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "lifeistheformofenergy" 
<lifeistheformofenergy@y...> wrote:
> 
> I personally talked to a few representatives from emu themselves 
and 
> they are not manufacturing right now because creative labs bought 
> them out and decided against it - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - I can't 
> believe this - I really want to buy an xl 7 after using my uncles 
px 
> 7 with the xl7 rom in it and the vintage synth rom in it - they 
told 
> me that the reason why they are not manufacturing is because they 
> don't think that it will be a good business investment and they 
think 
> that it will cost more than they will make ... now I don't know if 
> ofr where I am going to be able to ever get one !