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ITguy54 Full Member
Joined: 22 Mar 2015 Posts: 245
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 1:44 am Post subject: Kronos price drop |
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Sweetwater has dropped the price on the remaining Kronos 61 and 73 models. $500 off the 61 and $700 off the 73 key. |
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wocongming Full Member
Joined: 18 Apr 2020 Posts: 180
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Kronos price drop |
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ITguy54 wrote: | Sweetwater has dropped the price on the remaining Kronos 61 and 73 models. $500 off the 61 and $700 off the 73 key. |
in a way, its useless. cause sweetwater charges $800 to $1000 more for them to begin with. sweetwater has the worst deals in the world. |
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davc Full Member
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 102 Location: NE Ohio
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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same price at Guitar Center as Sweetwater ... priced higher at Sam Ash ..
i think you are misinformed regarding Sweetwater's pricing ..!?!! _________________ Korg Kronos 88 , Yam MODX , Dexibell S7 Pro , Emu Proteus 2000 , various fx pedals/racks ... |
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Xenophile Senior Member
Joined: 14 Nov 2017 Posts: 340
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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davc wrote: | i think you are misinformed regarding Sweetwater's pricing ..!?!! |
Agreed. They have always offered competitive pricing and very good customer service in my experience.
A while back I bought K&M Baby Spider Pro stand from them. I sent my sales rep a screen capture of a competitor's ad showing a lower price, and Sweetwater matched it. |
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Koekepan Platinum Member
Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Posts: 616
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Same here. I've always found that Sweetwater is near the best price that I could find, if not the best. On top of that they have been very good about warranty service and support, so if I lost everything in a fire and had to restock my studio, it would start with a call to them. |
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Bachus Platinum Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 3126
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Kronos has been discontinued by Korg some months ago, its just old stock being sold…
If you want a high end workstation with Karma, this might the moment to jump in… Karma will make Kronos a very special instrument for the next two decades.. _________________ Korg Kronos 2/88 , Genos, Mainstage3 +VSTsu, ipad pro, GSi Gemini, Roland Integra 7, Jupiter Xm, Yamaha motif XS rack, Ketron SD90.
www.keyszone.boards.net |
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bpoodoo Senior Member
Joined: 27 Dec 2019 Posts: 429 Location: Ding Dong, TX
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Sweetwater and Guitar Center still sell as "new" old stock Yamaha MOXF which has been discontinued for years. Kraftmusic sells neither the MOXF nor the Kronos anymore - they seem to move on pretty quickly away from discontinued products. Could be weeks, could be years, that old stock Kronos could still be sold new in-the-box. If the price of old stock MOXF is any indication, I wouldn't expect any huge advertised discounts on an old stock Kronos though. The "close-out sale" strategy to liquidate all stock of a discontinued product doesn't seem to apply. _________________ bpoodoo
Triton Extreme 88 w/MOSS
"We all move on, like centuries and doves." |
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rickster1 Full Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2012 Posts: 143 Location: Hilton Head Island, SC
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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NAMM is coming up in 3-and-a-half weeks.
Is it possible that Korg is coming out with a successor to the Kronos at NAMM & Sweetwater has decided they'd better clean out their inventory of K2s now before the announcement? |
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exsequor699 Full Member
Joined: 18 Apr 2016 Posts: 132
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SeedyLee Platinum Member
Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 1367 Location: Perth, Australia
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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rickster1 wrote: | NAMM is coming up in 3-and-a-half weeks.
Is it possible that Korg is coming out with a successor to the Kronos at NAMM & Sweetwater has decided they'd better clean out their inventory of K2s now before the announcement? |
Anything is possible, but I can’t see them having both the Nautilus and a Kronos successor in the market simultaneously, unless it was a whole new price category.
When the Kronos was introduced as a lower-cost version of the OASYS, the OASYS was discontinued. I’d imagine the same will hold true for the Kronos.
I would love to be wrong, but I suspect the Kronos is the end of an era.
As an aside, much was made of the fact when the Kronos and OASYS launched that they were based on commodity PC hardware. Some people couldn’t understand that amount of money on a glorified atom-based PC, completely ignoring all the other hardware and technology that goes into the Kronos and OASYS. Yet there’s been hardly a complaint or question raised about the fact that the $1000 OpSix, ModWave and WaveState are based on $50 Raspberry PIs with about the same profession g power as a mobile phone …
I think from Korg’s perspective they have moved to targeting a lower price point. Rather than selling 10,000 Kronii, they can sell 200,000 Volcas, Modwaves, WaveStates etc, probably at higher markup. _________________ Current Equipment:
Korg Kronos 2 88, Reface CS, Roland JV-1080, TE OP1, Moog Subsequent 37, Korg ARP Odyssey, Allen & Heath Zed 18, Adam F5, MOTU MIDI Express XT, Lexicon MX200 & MPX1, Yamaha QY700, Yamaha AW16G, Tascam DP008ex, Zoom H6, Organelle, Roland J6 & JU06A
Previous: Triton LE 61/Sampling/64MB/4GB SCSI, MS2000BR, Kronos 1 61, Monotribe, NanoKontrol, NanoKeys, Kaossilator II, Casio HT3000, Roland VP-03, Reface DX, Novation Mininova, MPC One |
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KK Platinum Member
Joined: 13 Oct 2016 Posts: 1416
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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rickster1 wrote: | NAMM is coming up in 3-and-a-half weeks. |
About keyboard manufacturers, only Casio, Kawai and Yamaha will be there. So it might be more about pianos this year. It it not surprising given the current terrible economy and insane inflation everywhere. _________________ My Kronos 7 |
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Sharp Site Admin
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 18197 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Two super big European retailers, Thomann and Gear4Music have removed the KRONOS line entirely from their website. It’s been that way many weeks. Many of the smaller retailers also have none listed at all. Not even an out of stock listing.
It’s not so easy to find any store with one listed here. There’s a few, but mainly from single shop places.
Regards
Sharp. _________________
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Scott Platinum Member
Joined: 16 Oct 2009 Posts: 1013
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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bpoodoo wrote: | Sweetwater and Guitar Center still sell as "new" old stock Yamaha MOXF which has been discontinued for years...If the price of old stock MOXF is any indication, I wouldn't expect any huge advertised discounts on an old stock Kronos though. |
I'm not sure MOXF6 is discontinued. When something is discontinued and goes out of stock, for example, Sweetwater says it is "no longer available." But if the manufacturer is still supplying them, they say "more on order" which is what it says now.
While we can't be sure Yamaha itself isn't sitting on a whole lot of "leftover" stock, it would be very unusual for a company like Yamaha to mis-forecast so badly that they still have "leftovers" going on 4 years later. I think it is more likely that the continued availability of the MOXF6 is intentional. Maybe Yamaha decided themselves to keep it going for longer, or if those are the only two companies carrying it, maybe they made an arrangement with Sweetwater and Guitar Center to continue to manufacture it for them. Either way, it is "current."
Its price did drop a lot after the MODX came out, it's been selling for $999 whereas pre-MODX it had been selling for $1399. And its been at the $999 price ever since. It looks to me like Yamaha and/or those stores made the determination that MOXF6 was still a viable product if marketed at that reduced price. |
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