SOTA Sapphire aquired

Made the PS from a Dyson vac wall wart.

No vacuum. No, Not Nadler. John Mayall.

Folks, it was a Dyson reference joke.

I got it. :)

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.

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

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