Vintage Synth Repair

I found a cheap ARP Odyssey on eBay, and the seller say that it 
powers up, but makes no sound. What's wrong?

How long is a piece of string?

On 20 Feb 2005, at 06:02, atarixegs wrote:

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Hello

You have asked recently:


> I found a cheap ARP Odyssey on eBay, and the seller say that it
> powers up, but makes no sound. What's wrong?

and also

> I saw an ad for a Korg Polysix, but the guy selling it says it
> doesn't power up. He says the battery hasn't leaked yet (which I will
> definetly replace if I do get it), and the power LED comes on. What's
> the problem?

and also

> I just contacted a guy who has a non-working Roland Jupiter-4 for
> sale. Any idea where to look for trouble spots?

You need to provide a *lot* more info for any sort of salient response. You 
clearly aren't able to ascertain from the seller the appropriate level of 
detail and unless you are a competent electronics enthusiast (and I suspect 
you aren't, judging by the style of your questions), you ought to leave well 
alone and buy something working.

Your questions are somewhat akin to saying "someone's offered to sell me a 
car but he says it doesn't work.,Any ideas what is wrong with it?" - a 
stupid question, I think you will agree!

RMC, England

I'm sorry, but that's all the seller said. It's not my problem. 
Besides, I know about electronics and I can fix it myself if I knew 
what's wrong. Getting one working would cost me about $700, which I 
don't have.

If you know about electronics you don't need us to tell you what is wrong -
go figure it out for yourself!

 

And it is really rude not sign your postings!

 

Regards

 

Brian

 

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From: atarixegs [mailto:pixelpast@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, 22 February, 2005 00:13
To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: ARP Odyssey problems...

 


I'm sorry, but that's all the seller said. It's not my problem. 
Besides, I know about electronics and I can fix it myself if I knew 
what's wrong. Getting one working would cost me about $700, which I 
don't have. 






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