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burningbusch
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting when you view the Korg (Japan) site https://www.korg.com/jp/. Only the Kronos LS is current, all others are found in Product Archives. Korg (USA) https://www.korg.com/us/ lists the Kronos, LS, and Titanium. It's very possible the Titanium was never available in Japan. For example, the Krome EX Copper isn't listed either in Japan, even though it's new and listed at Korg (USA).

So it could be that it will be discontinued gradually as models in various markets are depleted.

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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ITguy54 wrote:
fomalhaut wrote:
As I understand it, this means that the Nautilus is doing well. So all production capacity is geared towards getting more of them in the market.



How can that be when the Nautilus isn’t in the stores yet?


Last month Thomann ranked the 88-key Nautilus as 12th in sales.

But if you list workstations by popularity, the 88 is in 2nd place.

The 61 and 73 versions are down the list, interestingly at about the same rank as the Kronos 61 and 73 versions.
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
burningbusch wrote:
Interesting when you view the Korg (Japan) site https://www.korg.com/jp/. Only the Kronos LS is current, all others are found in Product Archives.

Indeed. The Wayback Machine shows that the change happened somewhere between now and February 25th, so it is a recent change.
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ITguy54 wrote:
fomalhaut wrote:
As I understand it, this means that the Nautilus is doing well. So all production capacity is geared towards getting more of them in the market.



How can that be when the Nautilus isn’t in the stores yet?


thats mostly correct. Only a few in the US have the N.

There are more trickling in to US retail, later this month, to fill preorders from Dec/Jan.

There are always 'early adopters ' that will jump on shiney new keyboards such as Montage, Fantom, Nautilus .

That niche demand isn't an indicator of 'success' IMO.

I think demand or success can be measured much later this year, lets say December 2021.
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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2021 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
danmusician wrote:
Interestingly, Sweetwater's site at the moment says, "Only 8 left in stock! More on the way."

Is it possible this is all just a product of the chip shortage?


Looks like they're all gone at Sweetwater, although it claims "More on the way"... this could be just a normal thing to list for now. May be the end of the road for new ones. Time will tell.
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PostPosted: Thu May 20, 2021 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
spottingjonah wrote:
danmusician wrote:
Interestingly, Sweetwater's site at the moment says, "Only 8 left in stock! More on the way."

Is it possible this is all just a product of the chip shortage?


Looks like they're all gone at Sweetwater, although it claims "More on the way"... this could be just a normal thing to list for now. May be the end of the road for new ones. Time will tell.


With all 4 Kronos models out of stock at the same time, it looks like the END. Ironically they have special 36 month financing on a product not in stock.
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