SOTA Sapphire aquired

Looking good Gary 👍
Enjoy the music

Made the PS from a Dyson vac wall wart.

Does that also power the vacuum?

Tony Baretta? Barney Miller? Or .... banging.... Jerry Nadler?

No vacuum. No, Not Nadler. John Mayall.

You can actually bang the table from the side and it won't skip! SOTA can supply you with a new dust cover but if the old one is not to badly damaged you can wet sand it with silicon carbide paper starting with 220 grit taking it down to 2000 grit then buff it out just like a car. 
You might want to check the resonance frequency of the tonearm with a test record (Hi Fi News) to make sure it is down around 10 Hz. If it is higher just add weight to the head shell. Southers and Clearaudios are tricky that way because there is such a difference between the vertical and horizontal effective mass the vertical being much lower. Some people think this is an advantage. I'm not sure not having had the chance to play with either arm.
I still have my old Sapphire. It has a Syrinx PU 3 arm on it. I got it in 1981 or so and it was all the rage back then "The Lynn Killer." It was the very first turntable with a properly designed suspension and people could not believe how stable it was. Yours looks like a vintage version of that time period. Mine still runs perfectly. I ran it exclusively for almost 30 years.
Use it in good health!'

Mike

Shortly later SOTA invented vacuum hold down. 

Folks, it was a Dyson reference joke.

Because it really isn't true listening enjoyment unless you're banging on the table, right?  Now I get it. ;-)

“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 ...

Folks, it was a Dyson reference joke.

I got it. :)

I like tomic601's John Hiatt reference ;-) .

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.

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....

I have seen Lyle, a true revelation and perhaps only eclipsed by him and John Hiatt on a stage taking alternating requests from a reverential, quiet, appreciative audience.... in a great hall on Saint Patty’s day, Lyle in a mint green wool suit..., freakin amazing 

Got a nice early Christmas present. When I got off work I saw the record store owner where I bought the SOTA had texted me. Seems the fellow that sold him the SOTA came buy with some parts for it & the arm & cart. Had the Souther box & the Sapphire power supply. Yea. Checked what was there, thanked owner, bought a couple of records and headed home. The table power supply is missing the toggle switch button. Had the bag of lead shot and to weight posts. Had the missing hinge socket. Had the tracking alignment gauge and extra arm weights and other parts. Had the original arm packing list. Had the Monster cart holder & some of the mounting hardware. Have to figure something for the PS button, will check with Donna if one is available. Yes, a nice Christmas present indeed Pics are added to thread link in first post.
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/sota-sapphire-in-the-house.891335/page-5

Read your AK thread. Good job getting it working again.

Great deck and should serve wonderfully as is 

AND if you ever get the urge or itch SOTA can do upgrades and updates and keep it running like new.

Happy spinning.

01-16-2020 2:30pm

"Great deck and should serve wonderfully as is

AND if you ever get the urge or itch SOTA can do upgrades and updates and keep it running like new.

Happy spinning."

"Read your AK thread. Good job getting it working again."

Been spinning for two months now. Very pleased with it.

When I first got the PS, I could not get the table to run with it. Well, was sitting here tonight looking at the SOTA PS and so I took out my DMM and tried again to see what it was doing. Plugged it in and I touched the two separate brass contacts to see if I could get a reading. 122V came up, same as on my Monster Power digital display. So I went and hooked up the table to & switched it on, and it worked. Don't have any Idea why I was having the issues when I first got it. I have contacted Donna and can get a switch or just bypass it, But I think I'd like to keep it original. Anyway, added a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eByjNkCFYgY&feature=youtu.be