Denny,
I owned a Star Sapphire III a few years ago and it was the best anaolog experience i ever had. I do not know if you have an electronic flywheel with your rig. I had one with mine and it greatly improved speed accuracy. That would be a great upgrade if you do not already have one.
I had a Sumiko Studio arm with my Sota. It was essentially a tricked out MMT. If you have an MMT now a great upgrade would be to damp it and replace the existing phono cable wire with a more detailed phono cable. That would upgrade your arm to close to studio status.
Sota makes a record clamp that is designed to work with the Sapphire table. Another relatively inexpensive upgrade is a product called, "The Analog Survival Kit". It mainly consists of a wrap that you apply to the tonearm. This wrap adds damping which improves the performance of almost every tonearm. It cost less than 50 dollars when I purchased it years ago.
Good Luck,
Drew
I owned a Star Sapphire III a few years ago and it was the best anaolog experience i ever had. I do not know if you have an electronic flywheel with your rig. I had one with mine and it greatly improved speed accuracy. That would be a great upgrade if you do not already have one.
I had a Sumiko Studio arm with my Sota. It was essentially a tricked out MMT. If you have an MMT now a great upgrade would be to damp it and replace the existing phono cable wire with a more detailed phono cable. That would upgrade your arm to close to studio status.
Sota makes a record clamp that is designed to work with the Sapphire table. Another relatively inexpensive upgrade is a product called, "The Analog Survival Kit". It mainly consists of a wrap that you apply to the tonearm. This wrap adds damping which improves the performance of almost every tonearm. It cost less than 50 dollars when I purchased it years ago.
Good Luck,
Drew