via this listing
"This is a professionally fully restored Oberheim Two Voice. It's in physically excellent condition for its age. The original tolex is in amazing shape with only a couple little tears in the lid. The keys are perfectly pristine white, no fading at all. You can tell this spend the majority of its life with the lid on judging by how nice the key whites are. Every module was professionally restored by Synth Tailor a little over a year ago, the Sequencer was restored by Rosen Sound and Synth Tailor. Restoration documentation will be provided to the new owner. Definitely not the cheapest TVS you can find but if you buy one that is not restored you are looking at 2-4k in labor to get it back to a reliable state and a very long wait time for it to be completed."
"RESTORATION NOTES:
Oberheim TVS-1A Restoration-Lots of love and time spent getting this put together and calibrated/restored.
-Repairs/Restorations done:
-Change of Multi Turn trimmers in both SEMS, Left Hand Controller, and Power Supply pcbs
(X20 Bourns 3296Y Trim Pots, various values)
-Completely disassembled pots on bad SEM and re-greased and lubricated/cleaned out junk/oxidation)
-Replaced all Tantalum caps in entire synth!
-Ran all Button caps, knobs, brass collets in ultrasonic cleaner (a few were missing, but I have a small stock from Tom Oberheim that were NOS)
-Replaced RCA Op Amps on SEM, LHC and Output Mixer PCBs so less noise/future proofing.
-Changed all old LM723 Voltage Regulator chips
-Rebuilt Power Supply, brand new Axial Electrolytic capacitors, and Multi turn trimmers (replaced the bad/intermittent CTS trim pots)
-Hit solder joints on all connectors (some were cracked/cold solder joints)
-Replaced many cracked Tropical Fish Capacitors
-Replaced Polystyrene Caps on bad SEM
-Replaced 3 connectors where they ripped out from being old/stuck.
-Fixed Sample and Hold on sequencer
-Replaced 2 bad FETs, Noise Transistor and a cracked Tropical Fish on Mini- Sequencer
-Calibrated Left Hand Controller to 1V per Octave, and proper Transpose of Keybed before calibrating everything else. (Replaced those with multi turn trimmers)
-Calibrated both SEMS thoroughly, lowest frequency on Pot CCW, is tuned to B now so you can tube up to C."
Prices just keep going up. There ain't many Rick Wakemans left in this world, and they ain't getting any younger. Remember when people were picking analogs out of the trash bin? The world is a strange place.
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