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05-16-12
this thread from a couple of years ago addresses your ques ... Almarg
05-16-12
Matching equipment to your personality is an often overlooke ... Mlsstl
05-16-12
Thanks for the link and the comments. most informative. wh ... Kbuzz
05-16-12: Tonywinsc
I bought my SOTA Sapphire w/SME309 tonearm new in the early 90s. I love it. It has been rock solid reliable and requires little maintenance and tweaking. It's design is very straight forward and easy to service. I have experimented with different types of grease in the bearing and with isolation of the turntable. I didn't replace the belt for many years and was surprised at the improvement a new belt made. I found a synthetic grease for the bearing that makes the table sound better. Weird.
With my Benz cartridge my analog has never sounded better.
A few months ago I found an app for my phone that plots platter speed using the 3150Hz test tone on a test record. I have my speed dialed in exact and was pleased to find my WoW and Flutter measurements good out to two decimal places. That app also surprised me to see that the platter speed doesn't stabilize out to two decimal places until the turntable has warmed up for a few minutes. Once warmed up, I can stop/start it and speed control is immediately perfect.
Sure, I 'd love to try out a Cosmos, but other priorities in my life right now keep me from upgrading and actually that has been a good thing. I've learned to appreciate what I already have.
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05-17-12
I have owned a number of sotas, from the original sapphire, ... Manitunc
05-16-12
I have owned 2 sota tables: both comets, and heard many othe ... Tbromgard
05-16-12
Linns are very tweeky...regas can also be, although much les ... Stringreen
05-17-12
The cosmos has a design feature different from the other sot ... Tonywinsc
05-17-12
Agree with you, tony. keeping the motor and the platter from ... Lewm
05-17-12
There is a good historical overview of the evolution of the ... Almarg
05-17-12
I have been a sota owners for 25 years (star, nova, cosmos i ... Smoffatt
05-17-12
Al, do you agree that the classic papst tt motor is dc? if ... Lewm
05-17-12
Hi lew, i'm fairly certain that the pabst motor used in the ... Almarg
05-17-12
I bought my sota sapphire 6 months out of college in 1986 an ... Rtilden
05-17-12
Whilst i agree that it is far better to have a rigid couplin ... Dover
05-18-12
Yes, the papst motor fitted to the early sota tt's was a dc ... Lespier
05-24-12
I have always been interested in sota vacuum hold down techn ... Dhl93449
05-24-12
As far as flattening warped records nothing works like vacuu ... Lespier
05-24-12
I have used a sota cosmos iv vacuum table and a transrotor f ... Manitunc
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