Xpantastic!

I think Dave dave (synthchips) sold all his stock a while back.
Senso is still around.
I have a couple of CEM 3374, 3372 and spare dacs, so touch would should be 
ok! The Xpander is not a synth i worry about.. my cs80 is a frigging 
nightmare! 

> Switching on and off has been noticed causing many of the break outs of electronic 
> components. I don't know exactly, but It may be the voltage and current spikes that 
> happen then, which break the components. You can hear this from your loadspeakers. For 
> this reason some studios keep their equipment on day and night. But, I think that in case 
> of Xpander this might not be a good idea, because of the displays. Luckily there is now a 
> replacement available as told above, but if I were you, I would absolutely not trade the 
> display unless I had a couple of spare displays. CEM3374 is also very difficult to find 
> component, but not nearly as much as the display. For these reasons some people like 
> myself have even bought xtra xpanders for spare parts. 
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> Very good sources for all synth components are especially the following: 
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> http://www.vintageplanet.nl/
> http://www.synthchips.com/ 
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> Is anybody aware, why the latter is not working currently? I also tried to reach Dave there 
> by email without success. Is he alright? 
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> Tiitu 
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