The Quality of Kurzweil Instruments

[St0rMl0rD]

Now...I had my Bespeco Crocodile double-x stand set up, with my precious Kurzweil PC88mx on it...so I turn away, and BAAMMMMMMMMM...next thing I remember seeing is my PC88mx lying on the floor, on my stand...Not a scratch on Kurz, although my stand got a little one, since PC88mx isn't really light... :) now THAT'S something...

oh, did I mention it was on 1,5 m? :lol:

[ImaX]

Wow, respect for that! Just wait a few weeks, perhaps some hammers in the key action will break... :wink:

I used a Roland A90 88key controller for a very long time, mostly without a case, and a cheap Korg N5, and never had any problems with one of them. Now that I have a Kurzweil K2500XS and a K2500R since just one years, I had to replace the RAM of the rack, had to repair a hammer in the K2500XS, and have problems with scratching samples and don'T have a LiveMode on the K2500XS... they're mechanical very good, but the electronics seem to have problems...

[Over The Edge]

Ummm...that's a heck of a test to see how durable
a keyboard is. Not so sure if I'd voluntarily do that
with any of my boards.



FL
www.franklucas.net

[Spacehog]

My E-MU PX7 command station (drum machine / sequencer) took a tumble from a similar height... and dented the wall! :)

Martin

[Enigma™]

The only problem I've ever had with my Kurzweil 2500X is this:

The buttons on the top where you click to make changes - *I program the sucker ALL THE TIME so I use the buttons more the most average people* and they started to go... They'd stop clicking, and then they'd only take a breath to make the button activate, and then it'd start changing all on it's own.
From that point I had a friend who is an electrical engineer come over and re-solder new buttons onto the front motherboard that I got from Brett *they're 2600 revision buttons* and haven't had a problem since *except for the buttons that I DIDN'T change over yet*
The only other thing was when I tried to install KDFX - My Kurzweil wasn't too happy with me at that point and decided that she was going to fry 3 internal boards and cost me over 2500$ to replace.
I love it so much that I paid to have it repaired... :)

Other then that, I'm sure there are horror stories and whatnot, but I've never had any real problem that I couldn't expect from any other synth.

[ImaX]

My A90 once fell off the stand (from sitting height) and damaged the floor... I was lucky there was a carpet to put over :-)

Two other times the top of my keyboard case (it was a custom case, way too big and heavy) fell on the A90. Again I was lucky, because it just hit the wooden side panels and damaged them.

I also don't like the buttons of the K2500X. I never had problems with them like Enigma, but they're to flat, you don't really feel them. That's one important point I guess why I prefer doing all the programming on my rack, because it has the kind of buttons I like.

[Medusa]

I bought a "new" (long stoy) K2500 and within a couple of moths one key is always extremely loud in comparison to others. I took the keybed to bits tinking the rubber underneath would be split but on inspection it looked OK. Howver when i put it back to gether all was working fine again. I was very pleased. BUT a week later it was loud again. Now i'm not sure what to do, i'm trying to get a replacement rubber to see if that fixes things.

[Lurion]

My wavestation fell from a height of almost a meter once. It landed up side down. When I saw it on the floor I thought "ok, the joystick's probably gone, and a couple of keys if the damn thing stil works, of course...". But to my surprise, it was as I had left it (mint condition) and working perfectly!! Korg can build synths, I tell ya.