What to look out for when buying a used kronos

splinters · Post by **splinters** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:24 pm

Mine smells like a new computer...its not a burning smell just warm circuitry. Brings back memories of the keyboard room in the music shop when i was a younger lad. Its starting to fade now and my Kronos only had a few hours use from new at Korg.

Pepperpotty · Post by **Pepperpotty** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:28 pm

Is definitely expect this from new electronic gear. I wouldn't expect it from something that's over a year old.

phil55 · Post by **phil55** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:50 pm

The computer guy who replaced my fan with a quieter one for me noticed that there is no protection shield around the power supply and suggested that one might want to clean the dust from inside once in a while for two reasons, it impedes the fan's operation and may make it louder and in case of dust buildup and heat from the board might cause a burning smell and in a worse case scenario could catch fire.

Of course, some people I've discussed this with here, disagree.

All I'm doing is putting it out there for thought and discussion.

I don't know what to think of this, but I'll clean it out within the year and see for myself.

Pepperpotty · Post by **Pepperpotty** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:39 pm

I don't think it's a ridiculous to clean your fan.

I know that my desktop fans on my PC get clogged up and I take them out and clean them once in a while.

I have my old PC hooked up to my telly to stream shows on and when it overheated I took it apart and realised that the CPU fan had got so much dust clogged in it that it had stopped spinning.

Natasha0404 · Post by **Natasha0404** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:01 pm

Pepperpotty wrote:The listing just ended and it went for £1285. I really hope that the burning smell wasn't coming from the synth after all. I have to say there is no way I would have paid £1285 when Korg are selling one on ebay for £1299 with a years warranty.

Yep. I'm most likely getting one with warranty. There's a dude selling his from a studio. He bought it in August for a project. He's got 3GB installed as well as the karo orchestral expansion? Don't know if that's any good. But all shall be revealed soon. Oooooooo. Drum roll.