Rhodes Chroma Polaris II

Rhodes Chroma Polaris IIRhodes Chroma Polaris II For Sale. We buy, sell, trade and service vintage synths professionally. This Polaris 2 was fully electronically restored and is now in like new perfect working condition. And yes, of course the membrane panel that always breaks has been replaced with a brand new one so you won't have to worry about replacing it. We don't mess around here. sn50033x Here's what we did to this unit to make it perfect, along with some

Rhodes Chroma Polaris II For Sale. We buy, sell, trade and service vintage synths professionally.  This Polaris 2 was fully electronically restored and is now in like new perfect working condition. And yes, of course the membrane panel that always breaks has been replaced with a brand new one so you won't have to worry about replacing it. We don't mess around here.

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Here's what we did to this unit to make it perfect, along with some preventative stuff other sellers rarely do...because we want this unit to hopefully outlast others. 

Replaced power supply electrolytic capacitors (future-proofing)
Reflowed some solder points (preventative)
Cleaned unit inside and out.
Replaced membrane panel (we consider this a necessity even in the rare cases where they're fully working, as they eventually break - panel cost is $250 + installation labor, which is of course embedded in our price)
Cleaned and lubed all slide pots and levers.
Cleaned jacks.
Cleaned key contacts.
Removed original battery and replaced with new lithium battery (3v D type)
Recalibrated.
Replaced high and low output jacks.
Replaced operating system eproms with latest version 11 (originally was version 5)

This process took 11 hours of highly skilled vintage synth tech time, plus parts costs. The result is a perfectly working instrument that's ready to play, without having to pay another tech to do what we did and to wait months to years for another tech to do it. You get what you pay for.

The main difference between the Polaris 1 and 2 models is in front panel graphics (the earlier version had color in its logo) and in operating system software.