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L. Angulo wrote: >Hi Gang, >There is a guy selling a blackface gibson EDP who >claims the ones being sold at musicians friend are >defective leftovers, and i want to know because i just >bought one! > > I'm on my third one from Musician's Friend. The first one would spontaneously reboot itself , and more than half the time would get stuck scrolling "Loop IV" when powered on. I've since learned that this may be cured by reseating the RAM, but I didn't want to mess with it. The second one had either been dropped or compressed in some way, there was a severe bend in the front panel, you could see the circuitry behind the buttons and it couldn't be racked. The other strange thing was that when I opened the box, the contents were covered with a fairly thick layer of light brown dust. Enough that I had to hold the power cord under running water to wash it all off. The EDP itself was inside a (dusty) layer of plastic and seemed cosmetically ok except for the bent faceplate. I never bothered to power it on. I've had the third one about a week and it seems to be ok so far. The box had obviously been opened and resealed. There was a small amount of dust in it, but nothing like the last one. The EDP looked ok and had no scratches. I had the first one about 30 days before it started acting up, so if you've bought one, you might want to leave it on for long periods of time. If you get one from MF that has a few small scratches on the top surface of the back right corner, it may be the one I returned. I'll bet MF just tosses returned items back into the warehouse, or marks them down as "blemished" and tries to sell them again. Beware. Note to the manufacturers: the cardboard "ears" that surround the EDP in the box to keep if from moving don't work very well. In all three of the ones I received, the holes the EDP fits into were too large or stretched out. The unit moved around a lot when you shook the box, the rack ears could easily hit the side of the box. Regards, Jeff