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General comments on SOTA

It seems that soya receives very little play in most forums with vpi and wt getting a lot of nods. Is this a commentary on sound quality or just the conservative non flashy nature of sota it self?

I've always liked sota for their relative lack of tweakiness and stability. I'm considering a sota but my local dealer is a linn rega fan and set up is an issue

Any comments
kbuzz

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lespier
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As far as flattening warped records nothing works like vacuum.
I had a Star for many years and ended up using the platter/bearing and vacuum system from it in a diy turntable... the vacuum hold always worked flawlessly (except for really dished records where you need to find a way to push the edge of the record down till the vacuum grabs).
Recently I"ve made a diy direct drive tt which uses a normal clamp arrangement and while very good I really miss the vacuum of my other tt.
lespier
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Yes, the Papst motor fitted to the early SOTA tt's was a dc servo motor. Papst also made others such as the external rotor ac (3 phase?) motor fitted to the Empire tt's(amongst others) as well as direct drive motors for Revox (B790). I think Papst also had something to do with the Dual EDS dd motors.
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