Re: Availability of Echoplex, will it ever come?

[Randy Philipp <randy@umbc.edu>]

> I bought that "scratch and dent" one they had on sale a couple of weeks 
>ago
> but it was way more screwed up than what they defined as a "scratch and
> dent" item. The whole faceplate was bent outwards on the right, a knob 
>was
> missing and two of the other knobs were floating around the box. One of
> those knobs was actually cracked too. In any event, it wasn't worth the
> savings of only $120 out of $799 for something that was that tweaked so I
> returned it to exchange for a new one. I'm still waiting on my new one 
>with
> the rest of you.
>
> Here's a warning though, if you see a scratch and dent Echoplex show up 
>at
> Musician's Friend in the next week or so, don't buy it unless you're 
>willing
> to live with something that may have been dropped or taken apart and 
>poorly
> reassembled. They probably had the thing ( serial # 79 or something like
> that ) sitting around for a year and figured they could get rid of it 
>since
> the other units were so hard to get. It's not worth $679 though. Not in 
>that
> condition.
>
> - Dave
>
>