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Love my Sota Sapphire w/ET2 airbearing tonearm😎🤘

Thanks for providing these videos. They are in the spirit of the 'right to repair' movement. much appreciated.

Why are there three tonearms? 3D sound?

Turntables so good, the narrator climaxed numerous times.

1:20 are those sapphire bearing thrust plates "fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft"

Really nice craftmanship. Sad to see people playing waxtime records on it.

State of the art would be 3D printed not wasteful CNC from solid blocks, wasteful and 20th century technology. Record players! I don't even play CDs any more. All of my music listening is either albums on RUclips or from solid state memory.

what is going on with those CGI tonearms with the absurd tracking angles at 4:19?

no. just no.

Purchased a Quasar a few months ago. Absolutely love it.

Can you make a video on how to change the rca cable of an older Sota Sapphire?

I have a Sapphire on my bench right now. The spindle bearing is completely dry and pretty noisy. It is an inverted bearing, so the lubrication is working against gravity. What lube would you recommend?

Another interesting fact, I have worked on and owned so many of these tables that I have seen the evolution of them from the first non vac Sapphires to the series V. Many of the tables while basically the same are constantly a bit different, much like individual custom builds, with many parts from any local hobby and hardware store. Another helpful video would be around identification of what you all call Series, and what are the compatibilities and incompatibilities of some of these components working together. This extends not only to the table motor and circuitry but also the PS box. I know I have swapped different PS with other tables they never came with, without issues, but there has to be a point where it's just not going to work right. The same with the Electric Flywheel stand alone box, I believe I also have a PS unit with a built in Electric Flywheel, just due to all the components within that specific unit. Some of the evolutionary electronic changes over 40 years is very confusing to me anyway.

Thanks Christian, just watched all the servicing videos you just did. I actually know all what your doing so far as I service my own tables and others that are local to me that I meet on audio sites. These videos are needed, I know because of all the people I have helped after they picked up a used table off of eBay and CL. I hope you will continue these into the area of the new modifications of installation of the Eclipse/Condor/Roadrunner components, as well as if there is also mods needing to be done with the PS/Vac boxes. These newer components are what I don't have any experience with yet, but plan on doing a table or two that I own. At this point I own 5 SOTA tables, Cosmos, Nova and 3 Star Sapphires, and have had many others over the years.

Thanks for the video. I have a Series III Sapphire I bought a few years ago. Luckily mine had the platter locked up when I got it. I can't wait to see the other videos.

Thank you for the great video! Makes it very clear how to upgrade the venerable VPI Scout with the SOTA Total Eclipse Package; which I now have the confidence to do.

I had three couples come over for a holiday dinner the other night and the men found our way to the listening room. With all of them, the first comments were about the soundstage. They just couldn't get over how their ears were fooling them. Good vid.

Hi, I bought a SOTA Star sapphire turntable that is disassembled completely. I was wondering if you have some pictures or videos that could help me reassemble it. I have experience rebuilding 3 Thorens td125’s, some Dual turntables, and 3 Thorens td124. John in Tucson AZ

Can these do 78rpm as well as 33 1/3

Christian. Can you tell me why the Condor PSU manual refers to an ‘amplifier’, connecting the condor to to the ‘amplifier’, and why there is a picture of the Motor, the Condor PSU, and another box labeled ‘motor’ on the cover of the manual? Is there another unit we don’t see in the video?

Why can't you take the platter off prior to shipping?

Nice video! I agree and was ecstatic to see Bill's invention live on with SOTA, I don't know where I'd be without mine. I have two "Classic" Eagle/Roadrunner units, one I got from the factory programmed to do 78RPM, the other I got in the wild which just does 33/45. I thought I heard you mention somewhere in the video that one can program the '78 feature in. The Eagle documentation is silent on this subject. I've been contemplating what I might try to get my second unit to do 78RPM.... Is exposing/hiding the 78RPM mode indeed a configuration option on the Condor? By the way, still that Jazz '78 you played sounded great - love those raw direct-to-laquer recordings. Play on!

Yeah the video was already shot and edited when I noticed. He fixed the magnet hitting after the video was shot.

That click when the magnet passes the sensor is alarming... Great video, though! Thank you!

Just a humble Comet owner but these turntables are some of the best built on the market.

This is a great Turntable indeed . I have had mine for 28years . Never missed a beat and built like a brick ship yard . An American Classic .