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SOTA Sapphire aquired

Picked up a SOTA Sapphire few weeks ago with a Souther SLA-3 linear arm & Monster Cable (Accuphase) Alpha 1 LOMC cart. No power supply and cover was damaged. managed to make a PS,  SOTA sent me a hinge attachment, I patched it up the cover till I can get one made.Got it set up and playing. Very pleased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en3KWSC3Vmw
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tomic601
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“Banging on it like Charlie Watts”

great tables, sold them circa 1981 and they were Linn killers, we kept 2 setup, one as a loaner .... no more tiptoeing around the room... they rarely came back

the basic sapphire/souther/Dynavector Diamond was our reference

brother still has mine and I have one just back from refurbishment at SOTA, still in business ...
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Folks, it was a Dyson reference joke.
I got it. :)
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I like tomic601's John Hiatt reference ;-) .
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Got the table leveled, I read through the Souther manual (actual had literature for the table, arm & cart), not the easiest arm to set up. Made sure things were correct. Figured a way to get my digital gauge under the cart. The cart was set at 1.95g (recommended 2g) so I let that be. Sounded great. Definitely different from my full auto Yamaha PX-3 table.
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