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If you're into vintage gear, you've probably come across our website. We've been buying, refurbishing and selling vintage synths and other electronic musical instruments for close to 30 years now. We're perfectionists and take our business, our gear, and our customers very seriously, so buy with full confidence - we won't let you down.

Our prices here may seem high, but we are a legit business with real business expenses, not your typical amateur seller with a Reverb store. Please click on our user name to read more about our shop so you better understand our prices & high standards.

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ITEM DETAILS:


This item was tested and appears to be working as it should. Most sellers don't spot or mention this, but the backlight is dim, as is typical with these at this point in time, though theyre often completely dead. What this means is you'll either want to use it in a well-lit room or you'll want to replace it. It may be possible our tech can do this for an extra fee - contact us before purchasing to discuss as this may or may not be feasible due to our heavy workload.

This unit sounds great and is in what we'd consider excellent physical condition for a used item of its age, but dont take our word for it - please check out the photos.

Sale includes original box and foam end pieces. The air spaces will be filled with bubblewrap or similar, and the box will have cardboard folded over it before shipping. It's possible the box may see some typical shipping damage but the keyboard itself should arrive intact.

We will also include the floppy disks we got with it. We only tested a few and they loaded up without any trouble, but old disks are notoriously unreliable, so it's very likely some will no longer work. While the synth and original cardboard box are in great physical shape and appear to have been stored properly over the years, the Valhalla floppy disks appear to have had something spilled on them at some point, and it seems some of the Korg disks may have as well, based on the spots on the labels. So there's a greater chance that these disks might not work (and youll want to look inside the valhalla disks especially before using them to make sure theres nothing on them that could come off inside the drive and effect it), but we see the disks as an added bonus anyway since many of these don't come with an original sound library on floppy disk.

Most people buying these today will probably want to upgrade to a virtual floppy drive anyway, but we successfully loaded sounds from disk, formatted a new floppy, saved to the new floppy and loaded sounds from the new disk, so the drive appears to still be working well. RAM test and filter tests passed. Other functions were tested and appear to be working as they should.          


GENERAL TERMS:

-Please read our shipping policy & terms before buying. They are firm.

-International customers please contact us before buying and wait to hear back to make sure shipping quote is accurate.

-***WE NEED APPROXIMATELY 1-2 WEEKS TO PACK AND SHIP ITEMS, AND DELAYS CAN OCCUR. If you can’t wait patiently, please don’t buy this item as we can’t rush things.***

-We are an online-only store and are unable to offer local pickups.

-Quality control and customer satisfaction are our top priorities. We go to great lengths to test, service and even future-proof most of the items we sell so they’re better than others you may find. We test most items multiple times and overlook nothing.When items are not working perfectly, they are accurately described. Physical imperfections can be seen in the detailed photos present here. This sale includes only what's shown in the photos (or itemized in this listing), nothing more and nothing less. Please search our website for additional photos.

-All sales are final. We do not accept returns or issue refunds, so please be sure you know you want this item before buying it.

-Due to the vintage and electronic nature of our items, we sell all items strictly as is, only because we cannot control what other people do to our items once they leave here, we cannot offer warranties on parts that are decades out of their original warranties, and we don’t want to be scammed or inconvenienced by people who abuse return policies or have buyer's remorse.

-In the extremely unlikely event that there’s a problem with an item we sell you, please contact us immediately so we can try to help.

-Thank you so much for your time, interest, and support. We look forward to doing business with you! If you need anything, please don’t hesitate to ask.

-Any date of manufacture shown here is just a guess.

-We generally set our condition ratings to "excellent", but please refer to the photos and writeup so you can have a better understanding of this items condition.

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Listed2 years ago
ConditionMint (Used)
Mint items are in essentially new original condition but have been opened or played.Learn more
Brand
Model
  • DSS-1 61-Key Digital Sampling Synthesizer
Categories
Year
  • 1985
Number of Keys
  • 61 Keys
MIDI I/O
  • MIDI Through
  • MIDI Input
  • MIDI Output
Polyphony
  • 8 Voices
Key Size
  • Full Size
Analog / Digital
  • Digital

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123synthland

Astoria, NY, United States
Sales:240
Joined Reverb:2019

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