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Hi Ojustaboo,

with all due respect, but your story and that of a few others (like your friends - who's final replacement X version locked up during first performance) have been posted, quoted and repeated all over the internet in many threads and places. However it are still your case and a few other cases whilst there are ten-thousands of Kronos boards shipped ; if you have to believe the serial numbers (pretty impressive right?).

Yes, they messed up big time with the RH3 in the beginning, but later on - with boards shipping wit the "made-in-Japan" RH3 keybeds the keys seem to be fine ; for as far as you may or may not like the RH3 itself. In other words ; it can't possibly be that all these thousands of Kronos machines have all been send back, repaired, exchanged etc and although there are misses, most of them are fine to begin with. I'm not jumping into the defense of Korg in particular here, but I simply recognize the mechanism at work here as far as negative posting about a product is concerned ; it are the same repeated stories I encounter over and over again and that give's the impression ALL Korg keybeds are bad - which can't be the case. They would have been bankrupt by now.

So if someone really likes the Kronos - be cautious to get a recent model (!), but other than that don't let all the bad posts about the RH3 in the past influence your purchase for the future. If you're really scared - consider the 61 key Kronos with an 88 controller as I said before.

ummmhhhh...
It's not the first time I read such a reasoning (only ten public complaints don't mean a thing/there must be millions of happy silent owners).
In fact, this is exactly what the conservative politicians say, here in Spain, as soon as a thousand people join in a demonstration.
As a consumer, I am very thankful to those who write merciless reviews, specially if they sound to be true, as in this case.
We (consumers) have the right to do so, and enough common sense to determine wether a post is reliable or not.

@mabraman

Of course the post is reliable and I fully agree with the fact that Korg initially messed up big time with their RH3 key beds. My only point is that now - with the current batches of Korg machines - potential customers must not be totally scared away from the Kronos, because of these faulty units in the past. And there are a lot of horror stories out there that are repeated over the many user fora and give the impression that any Korg is a bad Korg. That's simply impossible in the light of the amount of units that have been sold and Kronos Instruments that are currently in use by people. So yes - not everything is/ has been well and perfect in Kronos land - but don't forget the bigger picture; total units sold / cases of dirty RH3's - old batches with bad keys / new batches with revised keys. Then decided if you want to give it a try or not...

That's true JFP, but, hey, let someone else (a Korg employee) play that HAL9000 character.

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wow this all sounds so much like the problems Kurzweil had with the first run of K2000's. Deja vu.

This is normal. The market for commodity computer parts being what it is, Korg probably can't buy that SSD and RAM much more cheaply than you can. Then they, their distributor, and the dealer all mark it up to make profit on it (it's why they're in business), and then they also have to pay for the tech's time to install it (and make profit on that as well). So It's easy to see how 45 in parts turns into over 200 at retail.

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Would be good to know which serials these (new?) faulty machines we're ! Perhaps these examples are new old stock and have all old serials from the first batches despite being sold as new now...

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OK, nothing especially to the defense of Korg (cause they obviously messed up), but to put things in proper perspective. If the boards had early serials , despite being sold off so late, than it's to be expected that they had the faulty keybeds. I understood that somewhere around 3500 the keybeds of the 88's we're changed for the better.

I wonder very much if there are known cases of bad keybeds above serial 4000 which should be in the save zone - despite Korg not saying where exactly they started to double check the key beds (from 35xx??). If there are known cases of problems with >= 4000 serials - then I seriously doubt if it is save to buy any Kronos 88/73 at all.

Pitty - had my eye on a used one in the 4000 range...assuming it would be all-right. What to do...

By the way - loose screws in a 61 Kronos is a story you hear more often. Don't know if it's a matter of simply tightening the screws yourself and checking them , or a more serious problem...