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| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? Sorry I do not see a magnetic bearing storing energy and act as a suspension. Have you ever tried holding two strong magnets and then compressing them together? Takes a lot of force to do this. Now this bearing rides on a fairly complaint suspensi... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @atmasphere There was a bass extender module for them, which this pair has. Makes them look like Wilsons or those LS3/5A with their bass modules. Has a 7" Focal woofer in each cabinet as I recall. | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @atmasphere Any chance you can provide any details about their build or sound? | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @mulveling I have a Cosmos Eclipse and the magnetic bearing works well. No issues with suspension interaction or anything else. Now is it a sonic improvement over the sapphire bearing? That I do not know. But given what I see turntables selling fo... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? We just got back from Puerta Vallarta for an enjoyable trip for el Día de Muertos and this is my first weekend getting to sit back and listen to some music in the morning. The weekend is when I spin most of my vinyl, and for the past few weeks I h... | |
| MC cartridge for Clearaudio Concept 1600$ The Hana are the favored child it seems in today's world. Made by Excel, you probably cannot go wrong with it. The Ethos gets a solid report also. I would include an Audio Technica ART9XI into the mix, and if you shop carefully you should get it a... | |
| better wood for a plinth For my SP10 I went the CLS way trying to follow the pathway of Jean Nantais. I used a core of MDF wrapped in a layer of 1/2 acrylic bonded with a flexible adhesive, then sandwiched with a Baltic birch plywood, and wrapped in a mahogany veneer. Was... | |
| Well Tempered Signature turntable and arm My first Well Tempered was the Record Player that I bought in about 2000. Very interesting table, and i learned the basics of setting up a WT on it. I moved on from it to a Teres when a remarkable opportunity occurred. The a few years back I came ... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @dover I got some paperwork with the SOTA and one of the documents was a SOTA newsletter that laid out the upgrade path. It was postmarked Nov 27,1989. One section discussed the SOTA upgrade path to current generation tables. The Gen 1 model was f... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @atmasphere Do you remember what they used on the Gen 1 table then? A rubber mat? This one came with a felt one but I fitted it with a rubber and cork one I had available. | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @lewm Ah yes! That was an observation that others had about the early tables. I do remember one reviewer mentioning this also, and he found the best setting for him was 1/3 of the dial on vacuum pressure. The new tables do not allow you to adjus... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @mijostyn Some sites show 1980 some 1981 General Manufacturer: Luxman Model: PD-300 Type: Turntable without tonearm, with built-in manual vacuum platter suction Years of manufacture: 1981 - 1985 Made in: Japan Color: Silver, Wood Remote ... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @lewm I bet that was amazing to see! Guess the pitch controls were not going to have enough range to dial that down! | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? @mijostyn It appears that Luxman introduced vacuum clamping on the PD300 in the late 1970’s. Sota released the Star Sapphire in 1984. Apparently, there is also a SOTA GEM which was a precursor to the Sapphire and the first table released by SOTA. ... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? I don’t use these AI programs very often but I decided to try ChatGPT and Co-Pilot and see what I could find. They found references I did not in my searches. Co-Pilot says 1" thick 6061 aluminum plate laminated with Baltic Birch ply. Other AI and ... |