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Looking for good deal on a Korg Oasys 76 key, let me know your price thanks.

Hi jbeliz,

My intentions are not to start and argument here. I don't know what some of the others were saying about the $1000 price range, but that is patently absurd. I am a realtor and I see this line of thinking all the time. My house is worth so much more than my neighbor's because it is mine. Your house is worth almost nothing because I want it.

I did put my superb Oasys 76 on craigslist for $2500. I hate to part with it but I have too many boards. It is in mint condition and comes with a stand, dust cover and all the manuals. ..it also has the increased memory and at the latest version level. I consider $2500 a deal since they are going for around $3200-$3600. Look up the Oasys on craigslist and you will find mine in Tucson...you can see pics.

BTW I had a buyer for full price but he did not have enough funds and wanted to hang on to it for awhile. But, when it didn't sell for $2500, I quit advertising it for sale. As you know, these will someday increase in
value as they are built like tanks and I believe, will be highly collectable.
Propbably like the JP80 original incarnation. If you are serious, let me know if you are interested. BTW, I think the keybed action is perfect, actually better than my K61...I like synth style keys.

Thanks, Denny C Smile Smile Smile

The ones I have seen in the UK up for sale seem to be around the $3000 mark, $1000 is way off.

Having recently sold my very own Oasys 76 for just under £1250 UK pounds and its took some time to even get that much,having lowered the asking price a few times in order to sell,I think you guys have to face facts that the Oasys will only fetch as much as someones prepared to pay for it.

You can get sentimental about it and claim its worth more than the typical secondhand values but its not your simply trying to justify the loss,I will agree that the $1000 is way off mark,I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who will sell for as low as that,double that is more realistic and more a sensible ballpark figure,I was offered a part ex by the shop I purchased the Kronos from but I was kind of insulted when they said they could offer me £600,no way was I going to accept that when I knew I could easily double that privately

When Kronos came along it instantly put a spanner in the works for potential secondhand sales of the Oasys,I know as I saw the value plummet beyond belief,I still see the odd chancer listing their machines on ebay at stupid prices way and beyond a realistic value nobody will buy an Oasys thats priced over what a New Kronos cost.

Irrespective of it being a minimal unit run,its just won't ever command the collectable or niche status like people seem to think will happen some day Nobody is going to pay over the odds to own an Oasys when you can get a Kronos with new warranty and up to date features,the only people who are going to be trying to scoop an Oasys or at the very least pay slightly over the odds for one now will be very few and probably only going to be existing owners who want a spare machine like the gentleman who purchased mine.

I've suffered a huge loss over my machine from the original cost it was hard decision to sell but I didn't see the point in keeping hold of it for sentimental reasons I have a Kronos 2 now so theres no room for holding onto it in the hope its value will rocket,I just don't see it nor want it to sit there unused in the hope it will be a goldmine in years to come.

There are far too many older Kronos units on the secondhand market to convince people the Oasys is anything but a ticking time bomb for lack of spares and future failures the Technology has been superseded by Kronos and cheaper to buy,the MK2 Kronos is every bit as well built as the Oasys the build quality and reliability was an issue for the original models but I think this has been dealt with,with the newer Kronos 2 model as much as I enjoyed and Loved my Oasys for over 8 years i haven't missed it one bit and I don't feel sad by its resale value its what the market dictates at this moment.

A very candid and savvy reply. Kontrol, you have some sound reasoning. However, I still think with everything I offered with mine that $2500 with disks, stand, dustcover, and manuals in mint condition is not too far off the mark.

Denny C

DennyC wrote:A very candid and savvy reply. Kontrol, you have some sound reasoning. However, I still think with everything I offered with mine that $2500 with disks, stand, dustcover, and manuals in mint condition is not too far off the mark.

Denny C

Like I said,its only worth what someones prepared to pay,tomorrow is another day,you may get a buyer come along happy to meet a higher price,my judgement is simply based on my own experiences and watching the prices of the Oasys roll off,I was happy to let mine go for what I had listed it for,I could have hung on in the hope I could get a bit more for it the fact I'd had little correspondence at my original price kind of dictated where the price should be sitting that may change a few years down the line for other Oasys owners should they wish to sell.

I've always bought things for the here and now experience rather than as an investment,I've had many years of enjoyment out of the Oasys,but it was time to move on,you've got to look at things in perspective and do whats best for yourself,I try not to get too emotionally attached to my gear.

$2500 = £1620

$1000 = £648

1620 isn't far from 1250

Hey, Bob the Dog, great stuff. I'm still not desperate enough to let it go for much less. IMHO, when I bought it, I thought it was the best sounding and most versatile workstation around...as well as the ability of burning a cd from it. The future collect ability aspect did not weigh high in my priorities.

But if I sold it...I better not say anything more.

Hi Kontrol 49,

Honestly, I missed one of your comments and upon contemplating it, I would respectfully disagree. There is no way that the build quality is as good on the K2 as on the Oasys...I believe since you owned one you know better than that. Now, as you had indicated, the build quality is better than the original K, and the Kronos X, but it has the same sliders and wheel and joystick as all the other Kronos'.

DennyC wrote:Hi Kontrol 49,

Honestly, I missed one of your comments and upon contemplating it, I would respectfully disagree. There is no way that the build quality is as good on the K2 as on the Oasys...I believe since you owned one you know better than that. Now, as you had indicated, the build quality is better than the original K, and the Kronos X, but it has the same sliders and wheel and joystick as all the other Kronos'.

I will agree on the fact the sliders/Wheel/Joystick are maybe not in the same capacity as the Oasys,I do miss the indented value dial and the lit encoders/Sliders were a great visual aid too,but In respects to overall build quality this Model feels every bit as solid as the Oasys and takes me back to the days I remember of Korg quality on their workstations,I didn't feel that so much with the original Kronos this newer mk2 has a kind of sleekness to it,whether you agree or not is personal choice,I've owned and gigged with most of Korgs workstation Back catalogue since the beginnings of the M1 days IMO this Kronos is up there with the best of them in terms of Quality including Oasys it may not have some of the luxury controllers of such synth but overall its on par and built like a tank.

That aside though Oasys isn't as bullet proof as some would like to believe though and has suffered issues as some of my Tact switches started to malfunction as so many other owners have too(however I did remedy mine with some drops of WD40 and it brought them back to life again) and I can recall some users having those "Melting" slider caps and a few with dead motherboards,it why I felt the time had come to retire it,the small production run of a few thousand worried me as to the future spares situation,I discussed this with the guy who bought my Oasys and he said thats partly why he was wanting a second one,to use as a backup machine down the line should anything go drastically wrong at least he had a viable source of spare parts at his disposal

The Oasys is a large slab of a synth it just became too cumbersome and unpractical for ongoing gigging,there wasn't any alternative to a 76 note until Kronos came along the 61 Key model feels more comfortable all round in my own personal use for gigging and I know it will stand the riggers of gigging in the same way the Oasys did due to its solid and sturdy build,and its still giving me access to everything and more that was so great about the Oasys.

One of the things that kind of worried me a little with the Oasys was the CD drive,gigging with my Oasys regularly I was always in fear of the CD drive being damaged from Vibration or constant moving of the unit,the same with the Hard drive,(although I never had a problem with either during ownership....it was always in the back of my mind.. what if)I feel a little more at ease with the Kronos due to the fact you can hook up an external cd writer if you so wish via USB rather than a fixed unit and the SSD means theres no actual moving parts to the drive so is perhaps less prone to malfunction from vibration.

Hi Kontrol 49,

We're actually on the same page. I agree with everything you said.
I was just respectfully bringing up the point on the switches and sliders.

Kontrol49 wrote:,I was offered a part ex by the shop I purchased the Kronos from but I was kind of insulted when they said they could offer me £600,no way was I going to accept that when I knew I could easily double that privately

That's not good. I've had my Kronos now about 20 months (kronos 1)from a shop that offered my £1200 for an oasys 88 (excellent condition) and even when I was boxing the oasys for collection, I had doubts about P/X ing it for a Kronos, because it looks so beautiful. And this was for a DEMO model that came bashed up on arrival (joystick bent, big gash on the ribbon, so asked for a new one, but they wanted more money (because it was new), so it was like £400 extra (I think) making it £800 not £1200


Anyway, its the way it is, you have to accept that shops offer VERY little for even keyboards that cost £4-£5000 in the day you brought them. that's what hurts the most. My Kronos (in effect) cost me about £7000 to get if you consider I paid full £5000 for Kronos (think it was £5299).Ouch indeed.

One plus though, The Kronos Is awesome, and the 3.0.1 update with all possibilities ALMOST make it worth it . That £7000 haunts me though