Yamaha CS80

The CS50 is a good compromise in terms of usability and manteinance; Laurie is pretty right in this concern: the total number of sold CS polyphonics has to face the fact that many of the small units were used as spare parts for the big CS80 or the CS60 so there aren't many left; in any case if you keep the instrument in a good shape, meaning with it a dirt free, constant moistness and temperature room, keeping also the contacts clean , with an eye to the PSU and, if avaliable, a current stabilizer if you live in an old building, your CS-50 will last forever.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David 
  To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:50 PM
  Subject: [yamahacs80] Should I keep my CS-50


  Help me decide to keep my Yamaha CS-50. Im considering getting the 
  midi retrofit and keeping it forever...............but

  All this talk here about chips blowing up on CS-60 and CS-80 leads me 
  to believe that perhaps Yamaha got it wrong in the engineering of 
  these two models
  From the posts here the track record seems as bad as the Roland Juno 
  106 voice chip--the question I ask is it all worth it if each time you 
  turn on the machine
  you worry about a chip failure?

  On the other hand the CS-50 does not seem as flawed in the engineering 
  side as the CS-60 or CS-80 looking at the posts
  Have I got this right about the CS-50 ? Its not an engineering failure 
  like the CS-60 and CS-80

  thanks in advance
  David

  http://www.myspace.com/jointhecarcrashset

  

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