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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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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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Yep the Souther rewards a very very level table and meticulous setup :-)...

ya man, @bdp24 i hoped somebody would get the musical reference.....

listening to Lyle in honor of Roger today....
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@tomic601, have you seen Lyle live? Oh, man, is he great. I saw him with his Large Band, with Russell Kunkel on drums. Whatta band!

Roger knew a lot about music. In an email, I was telling him about all the guys I had worked with who had died in the past few years (not knowing he was about to), and my inclusion of Evan Johns elicited a query from Roger of "You mean of Evan Johns & The H-Bombs?" I was impressed; you have to be pretty heavy into music to know about Evan.

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