Xpantastic!

Absolutely!
And big appology for spelling your surname wrong if your reading this 
Steve.. doh! (Lenham not Lenman) 

> 
> Yep, I´ve seen the offer @ebay and decided not to buy ´em. Too expensive 
> !
> I hope, Steve comes up w/ his update board soon,- it´s absolutely the 
> better investment for the future. 
> 
> blchrr@... schrieb:
>> 
>> Hello all, 
>> 
>> I guess everyone has seen the nos xpander VFDs on ebay: 
>> 
>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Oberheim-X-pander-Matrix-12-VFD-display-Xpander-NOS 
>> _W0 
>> <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Oberheim-X-pander-Matrix-12-VFD-display-Xpander-NO 
>> S_W0>  
>> 
>> QQitemZ170303550830QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Pro_Audio_Sy 
>> nth  
>> 
>> esisers_CV?hash=item170303550830&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688 
>> %7C  
>> 
>> 66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 
>> 
>> Handy part to have around as a spare part.
>> Still.. personally i think if your considering paying over £100 (current
>> price is £100) for *1* spare VFD for your Xpander, then its well worth
>> looking at the new replacement board that steve lenman is offering: 
>> 
>> http://www.lenham.clara.net/sound/obvfd.html 
>> <http://www.lenham.clara.net/sound/obvfd.html> 
>> 
>> My Xpander was the prototype for this board replacement, i asked steve to
>> build it for me. 
>> 
>> It works really great. The replacement board uses VFDs that are still in
>> production it looks and works the same. Its really good, really please 
>> with
>> it. 
>> 
>> I had my Xpander fully recapped and its been great.. wish i could say the
>> same about the few other analogue synths that i have now which seem to 
>> self
>> destruct on a regular basis :( 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Rob. 
>> 
>> 
>