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I had carefully cut open the box along the outer perimeter, then opened it to see the extent of the...

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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011

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The box was certainly big enough to hold the OB-Xa...

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A close up of the inside through the rip in the box, furthering my trepidation...it's kind of empty!

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I laid the box on it's side so I could carefully cut it open.

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This was the first sight I got of the arrived package in my front entrance way. This is where your...

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Ok, that's a lot of cabling. One key thing to note is the grey ribbon cable is NOT very long, and...

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The Sharpie pen is just there to hold open the top while I take photos. :) Here you can see that...

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I rotated the power supply circuitry and hacked off the top of the aluminum heat sink so that it...

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You can see here the standoffs that hold up the CPU pcb. This reminds me that I should replace the...

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I then cut off the top of the box to see better the absolute lack of packaging around the synth.

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Uploaded on Dec 13, 2011

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End shot into the nearly empty box after I cut off the end of the box with a knife. Yikes!

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Opening it up and looking at all that empty space suggests to me the obvious need to chop it down!

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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2011

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This is what we keep...

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...and this is what gets chopped.

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Pretty much just cut it in half - the real challenge was in cramming in all the circuitry into the smaller chassis

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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2011

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The walnut sides make for a classy contrast to the beige Akai color scheme

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Again, the walnut I find a very attractive addition. If you look carefully, you can see...

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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2011

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