Yamaha CS80

However..... the good thing about your CS80/60/50s are, you can
service them.....

Todays synths are not like that...you would be looking for entire
modules or entire synths on a chip to replace....from a Technicians
view point.....you can keep it alive as long as you can diagnose
problems, and find those special chips...
-----Original message-----
From: Richard Atkinson rga24@...
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:25:47 -0600
To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Should I keep my CS-50

Keep your CS-50, David!!

MIDI or no MIDI, the CS-50 is a wonderful instrument in its own right.

Yamaha's chips don't seem to be any more or any else reliable than any

other manufacturer's.

The problem with the CS-80 (and to a much lesser extent the CS-60) is
the 
sheer number of components inside the device. Even if the chance of
any one 
component failing is very small, on the CS-80 the meantime between 
failures is shorter because there are so many more chances for
something to 
go wrong. More rolls of the dice, if you will.


On Mar 16 2009, David wrote:

>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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