// UNIT CB-204 · BENCH 3 · SIGNED BY M. ZIELINSKA

Nullwave mono synthesiser▮

SERIALNW-1983-0412
SOAK LOGGED02:04:11
SIGNED OFFM. ZIELINSKA
BENCH DATE22 SEP 2026

Three photographs, taken on the packing table the day the unit was listed. Nothing is a stock image and nothing has been retouched — the marks you can see are the marks that are on it.

CB-204
RESERVE
4 290zlincl. 23% VAT · free delivery in Poland
▮▮▮▮▮▯▯5 in stock · dispatch within 48 h

A 1983 mono synthesiser stripped to the board, recapped, re-bushed and run for two hours at full load. Sold with the test sheet that came off that run.

End cheeks

Both weigh the same on the courier bill. Pick on looks.

Mains plug

Swapped at no cost before the carton is taped.

We hold the unit for 48 hours and send a payment link. Nothing is charged here.

Compare with the other 11
PACKED
LAST JOB BEFORE PACKING
A technician soldering a replacement capacitor onto a synthesiser board at the Coldboot bench

The last job on this unit — a fuse holder reflowed on bench 3 the morning it was packed.

// CARTON CONTENTS

What the carton holds

✓The CB-204 itself, 4.1 kg, in a cut foam cradle
✓12 V 2 A regulated supply, your chosen plug
✓Two 1.5 m patch leads, 3.5 mm to 6.35 mm
✓Printed voice card with all 24 factory patches
✓Signed test sheet with the soak log and date
✓Spare fuse set and two keybed bushings
✗Sustain pedal — 140 zl, say the word and it goes in
✗Flight case — 690 zl, built to this unit's dimensions
✗MIDI cable, because everybody already owns six

Packed weight is 6.8 kg. The outer carton is double-walled and the unit is suspended on foam so nothing touches the wall.

Carton dimensions are 620 × 420 × 180 mm, which is inside every courier's standard band, so there is no oversize surcharge anywhere we ship. If you are collecting in person we hand it over unboxed with the foam folded flat, and you can play it at the counter first.

Ask for the full parts list

// READOUT

Signal path and numbers

37Keys, velocity, no aftertouch
1 + subOscillators, saw / pulse / triangle
24 dBLadder filter, self-oscillates from 32 Hz
2Envelopes, 1 ms to 12 s
64Sequencer steps, four banks
DINMIDI in and thru, plus CV and gate out
4.1 kg480 × 320 × 95 mm on the desk
12 V2 A regulated, 780 mA measured draw

Measured on bench 3 at 23 °C after the two-hour soak. The draw figure is the average over the last thirty minutes of that run, not a figure off a label.

AFTER YOU RESERVE

From order to doorstep

HOUR 0 – 48

Held for 48 hours

The moment you reserve, this unit comes off the shelf count and a payment link lands in your inbox. Nothing is charged until you follow it, and nobody else can take the unit in the meantime.

DISPATCH DAY

Final power-on, then packed

Forty minutes on the rack, a wipe down, your plug fitted, and a photograph of the unit as packed. That photograph goes in the dispatch email with the courier tracking number.

DAY 1 – 30

Thirty days to change your mind

Send it back in the carton it arrived in. You pay the return label, about 35 zl in Poland; if it developed a fault, we pay and the refund clears within three working days of it reaching the bench.

// SAME DESK

Three that sit well beside it

CB-061
MODULE
Ashfall filter module seated in a rack beside other modules, in stock

Ashfall

Takes the CB-204 CV out straight into its sync jack

Raw aluminium
890zl
9 in stock
Open unit
CB-528
PEDAL
Floodgate Delay pedal wired into a board on a wooden stage floor, two left in stock

Floodgate Delay

900 ms tail — the usual pairing for the sequencer

Long tail
690zl
Low · 2 left
Open unit
CB-480
MODULE
Coldbox desktop skiff laid out on the workshop floor with its bus board and four modules, in stock

Coldbox

62 HP skiff, 320 mm — same depth as the CB-204

Steel shell
620zl
7 in stock
Open unit

// QUERY LOG · CB-204

Five asked about this unit

HOW WORN IS THE KEYBED REALLY?

All 37 bushings were replaced, so there is no side wobble on any key. Three white keys carry visible playing marks on the front edge, photographed in slide two. Velocity response was matched across the board to within 4 units of the scale.

DOES THE SEQUENCER SYNC TO A DAW?

Yes, over MIDI clock on the DIN input. It follows start, stop and continue, and holds tempo to within 1.5 ms of the host across a four-minute test. There is no USB on this generation, so you need a DIN interface at the computer end.

WHICH PARTS DID YOU ACTUALLY REPLACE?

Every electrolytic capacitor on the power and voice boards, the mains fuse holder, all 37 keybed bushings, both output jacks and the pitch wheel potentiometer. The filter chips and the keyboard scanner are original and tested good. The full parts list is on the test sheet.

CAN I TRY IT BEFORE I COMMIT?

Come to the counter at ul. Rusalka 12 any time between Tuesday and Saturday and we will have it powered on with headphones. If Lublin is too far, ask for a video: we record a four-minute pass through the patches with whatever you want to hear.

WHAT HAPPENS IF IT FAILS IN YEAR TWO?

The warranty runs 24 months from delivery, so year two is still covered for parts and labour on anything we touched. We send a courier, fix it, and send it back. After the 24 months you still get priority in the repair queue and the bench rate stays at 180 zl an hour.

// STILL DECIDING

Send us the room, we will send back an answer

Tell us what you already own and what the CB-204 would be doing in that setup. If it is the wrong unit for you we will say so and point at the right one, including the ones we do not stock.