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by mee3d » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:08 pm
I just bought an Andromeda last weekend. I've always wanted one but everytime I had the money I bought something vintage... not complaining but now that I have sold off most of the vintage collection I was looking to purchase a modern analog, something like a polyevolver, prophet08 or Andromeda.
There aren't many pro-audio music shops in Ireland, and you are unlikely to find anything analogue (other then guitars, whistles and banjos!) so when I stumbled across one in Dublin I popped inside for a look. To my surprise they had all the new big name units, Korg M3, Oasys, V-synth, Mofif XS etc, etc but in the corner I noticed this dusty Andromeda.
No one knew what it was... the salesman said to me "don't bother with that, buy this M3". Another salesman wasn't sure it even worked so I asked for headphones and sat down to test it. Everything checked out, all the menus worked, all the knobs functioned (I had many problems with non function knobs on Alesis' ION), the unit tuned up fine... and sounded in tune, so I was pretty confident that it was OK.
I asked how much for it and everyone shook their heads and then the truth came out... "It's a returned unit, we've had it for about 2 years, someone baught it and said the menus didn't work, we returned it to Alesis and they sent it back wondering what was wrong with it.. we don't know whether it works or not?" ... at that point I knew I was in.
The salesman went on to say it retailed for nearly 3000 euros and he would let it go for 1500 euros, I looked at him and said... "too much for a risk... I'll give you what I have left on my credit card, about 900-1000 euros"... he said OK, so I left with it under my arm for what translates to 1200 bucks.
I have had it on soak and it sounds and plays perfectly... suppose I won't be looking for that prophet08 now.
Mal
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