Re: B-3000 headaches-aspirin is NOT the answer!

[GOFFProf@aol.com]

Harry wrote about the B-3000 post from an owner with several problems:

>The problem may be that it's a b-3000 not a b3............<

At this stage of the game, I agree, Harry. Due to many design problems and
age of the B-3000's electronics, I have found them to be very troublesome
organs that suffer from constant board connector failures and other problems.
The matching HL-722 Leslie with them is another nightmare!  Keep your money
in your pocket if a B-3000 becomes available.--- walk away and save money and
heartache. 

Even when new, the B-3000 just could not meet the expectations of the
original B-3 owners. It certainly had similarities and some very neat
improvements, but the real character of the old sound was lacking. Lenny Dee
used a B-3000 and likes them. His has been extensively (and expensively I'm
told) rebuilt. Good luck to Lenny in the future with this beast. As far as a
comparison, my veteran HAMMOND customers tell me that the XB-3 sounds far
better than the B-3000, and yet it is NOT quite a B-3. It's damn close, but
nothing will ever replace the King. 

The B-3000 & others like the Concorde 2100 series --- We sold them them when
they were new. Some were troublesome right out-of-the-box, and they are all
troublesome now.  Don't get me started on H-100's, H-300's, E-100,'s.........
 

Prospective organ buyers remember--- not all HAMMOND's are *fabulous* organs.
Several models are the absolute BEST, some are very good, some OK, and
some...... deserve to be thrown into a compactor and burned. Other techs on
the board can give their own impressions of which models are which. Jim
Duane, Jerry Welch, Bob. S., Gordon (our man in Urbana), and the other
veteran techs can give some straight-talk advice which should NOT be
discounted by HAMMOND seekers. Isn't it interesting that many of the oldest
organs happen to be the ones people want the most?

(Harry -- see what you started? Remember the battles from B3organs' comments
on the quality of the earlier vs. later year B's! ..... and he was absolutely
right..  :-)

Al