Oberheim OBXa midi synthesizer FULLY RESTORED keyboard VINTAGE SYNTH DEALER

ABOUT US:

WE BUY, SELL & REPAIR VINTAGE SYNTHS & STUDIO GEAR

PROFESSIONAL PERFECTIONISTS WITH 3 DECADES OF EXPERIENCE

BUY WITH CONFIDENCE. We specialize in high quality, fully-serviced vintage analog synths, keyboards & other used gear. We're professional dealers & musicians too. We know our gear inside and out and treat our customers honestly & respectfully.  We've been on eBay for many years. You can find our old feedback under user name minime123. Nowadays, we sell most items directly on our website, but occasionally use eBay too.  Please mark us as a favorite seller.

PRICES: eBay fees are high and are factored into our prices here. We are a reputable business and will not price match with other sellers selling a much lower quality product and service. You get what you pay for.

ABOUT THIS ITEM:

This item is also listed on our website, so please contact us before bidding to make sure it’s still available.

Due to the high value of this item and the sad fact that there are some crappy people out there, PLEASE READ EVERYTHING here, tell us a little about your interest and wait for our permission to buy as we want to be sure this transaction will be a pleasant one for both of us.

Like nearly all the high end vintage analog synths we sell, this item has been METICULOUSLY disassembled, cleaned inside and out, FULLY serviced by professionals who’ve been servicing and selling vintage synths for more than the last 3 decades, and systematically tested multiple times over a long period to ensure it’s working exactly as it should.  No BS. No ebay surprises. We’re perfectionists and don’t cut corners. Although this instrument came to us in relatively good shape, we want our items to be better than the rest and invested *many* hours of tech time plus parts costs to fully overhaul this unit so it would be clean, working like new again and as reliable as possible for its next owner. This was a serious investment of time, love, and money, and was definitely worth the effort and is of course reflected in the higher than usual price. If you’re looking for a great sounding example of this model that works just like it should without needing to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in tech fees and waiting from weeks to years, this one should make you very happy.  

SPECIFICS:

This unit came to us in relatively good working order, but these synths need a full restoration in order to work like new again and be as reliable as possible, so that's what we did. It's been meticulously cleaned inside and out and electronically refurbished so it's working exactly as it should, no surprises typical of most vintage synth purchases these days. We also took some important future-proofing measures, so it will hopefully outlast all others. This unit should tune better than all others too as it also includes our custom tuning stabilization modifications. This process took approximately 37 hours of valuable skilled labor which is of course factored into our price - you get what you pay for. This ob-xa contains a JL Cooper MIDI retrofit.

Here's a rundown of what our tech did - there could be more things left out:

Disassembled and cleaned inside and out
Keyboard mechanism rebuilt: 
Old bushings removed and replaced with new bushings
Key guides adjusted
Bus bars cleaned
Key contacts cleaned
Keys cleaned and reinstalled
Replaced power supply caps, replaced IC socket, diodes, trims
Lots of molex connector terminals replaced
Jacks cleaned
All pots cleaned
VCO trimpots replaced for more stable tuning
Replaced most electrolytic capacitors
Recalibrated
Replaced 4053 logic IC chips x3
Replaced CV section TL082 IC chips x8
Replaced CA3080 VCAs IC chips in CV section x8
Replaced battery
Reloaded patch data
Replaced wooden sides
Repaired often defective pitchbend

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If you have one of these you’d like properly restored, we can help!

The shipping calculator here may be wrong. Buyer pays ACTUAL insured shipping costs. 

International shipping: The price using eBay’s Global Shipping Program option is accurate. If you check out using this option, this will be the only option. If the calculator shows a UPS Expedited option, the cost may be a lot less using our UPS account - the best way to calculate shipping via this method would be to go to our website, find the item and use the calculator there since our shipping calculator should be more accurate - but please email us first to discuss as we want to be sure the shipping quote seems right.

We will settle up any shipping differences after the item ships. It will ship within approximately 2 weeks of when we receive full payment. We won’t falsely declare the value of this item, so please don’t ask. 

PAYMENT TERMS: Please do NOT use the Buy It Now option yet. Since this is a high value item, please contact us to discuss your interest and intent to buy and wait to hear back from us. We’ll need to adjust the payment preferences before you buy this item. We will require a $200 hold deposit via the eBay payment system. This will put this item on hold for you. Next, we'll need your name, address, phone and e-mail and we'll send you a proforma invoice for the balance due. This amount must be paid by electronic transfer from your bank to our business bank account within 48 hours. If we don’t receive these payments within the specified time frames, we will have to file an unpaid item report, cancel this sale and relist this item.