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Suspension System(Legs & Platform Isolation & Leveling) |
Vacuume Hold-down & Clamp System?
(Suction platters flatten out most warped records) |
Platter |
Armboard & Tonearm? |
Finish |
Price ($USD) |
Reviews |
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| MILLENNIA
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spring-less, hanging four-point balanced-mass visco-elastic suspension system |
Open Chassis Vacuum Turntable and Reflex Clamp. (For Non-Vacuum version, $Call) |
Vinyl Format Platter Mat. Inverted bearing assembly design, sapphire thrust plate with zirconium bearing |
Blank Cosmos Armboard. Choice of Tonearms and cartidges separate. |
Gloss Black |
$7360 |
Millennia Vacuum Turntable, "Exceptional midrange clarity is its most distinctive attraction, and highs are silky smooth. Dynamics are good, and the bass is very defined, if leaner than life." Recommended Systems Components, The Absolute Sound, Issue 138, October/November, 2002 www.theabsolutesound.comMillennia Vacuum Turntable - "Whether it's a huge orchestral slam or a slice of thumping techno, the SOTA has the ability to hypnotize with the way it's able to separate instruments in the mix. Vinyl reproduction doesn't come better than this." Editors Choice, Stuff Magazine, September 2000
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COSMOS
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Floating Seismic Platform™ Four-Point Spring Suspension |
Vacuum Turntable and Reflex Clamp (For Non-vacuum model, $Call)
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Vinyl Format Platter Mat. Inverted bearing assembly design, sapphire thrust plate with zirconium bearing |
Blank Cosmos Armboard. Choice of Tonearms and cartidges separate. |
Black or Gray Matrix Fountainhead, American Cherry, High Gloss Black Acrylic, African Rosewood or Macassar Ebony .Also available in High Gloss Piano Black Finish ($5920) |
$5520 |
"The SOTA suspension is -- and by a country mile -- the most cost-effective antidote for floor-borne disruption, I've encountered. It may be the best built-in isolation system short of mag-lev or an air bearing, period." Bruce Kinch, Listener Hi-Fi & Music Review, September/October, 2002 http://www.enjoythemusic.com/listener |
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Series V:
NOVA
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Floating Seismic Platform™ Four-Point Spring Suspension |
Vacuum Turntable and Reflex Clamp
Electronic Speed control
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Cosmos Vinyl Format Platter. Inverted bearing assembly design, sapphire thrust plate with zirconium bearing |
Blank Composite Armboard. Choice of Tonearms and cartidges separate. |
Satin Black, Light Dark or Black Oak |
$3214 |
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Series V:
STAR
See Mike's STAR with (optional) high-end machined Tonearm and Grado Wood Cartridge
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Floating Seismic Platform™ Four-Point Spring Suspension |
Vacuum Turntable and Reflex Clamp Electronic Speed control
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Acrylic Supermat. Platter Inverted bearing assembly design, sapphire thrust plate with Chrome Steel bearing |
Blank Wood Armboard. Choice of Tonearms and cartidges separate. |
Satin Black, Light Dark or Black Oak |
$2869 |
"The Star in a word, is suave, the Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett of turntables." Nels Ferré, TNT HiFi Magazine, May, 2002 http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/sotastar_e.html
"I recently purchased a used SOTA Star turntable. I have owned several of the other top tables out there, never have I heard the bass definition that the SOTA offers. I'm keeping this baby." Richard W., Canada, January, 2003
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Series V:
SAPPHIRE
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Floating Seismic Platform™ Four-Point Spring Suspension |
Non-Vacuume with I-Clamp
Electronic Speed control
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Acrylic Supermat. Platter Inverted bearing assembly design, sapphire thrust plate with Chrome Steel bearing |
Blank Wood Armboard. Choice of Tonearms and cartidges separate. |
Satin Black, Light Dark or Black Oak |
$1949 |
If a turntable is to achieve the goal of bringing you closest to the musical experience, it must address and resolve all of the factors that affect ultimate performance. At SOTA, turntable design has been carried to its logical conclusion. SOTA SERIES V SAPPHIRE TURNTABLE Listener Hi-Fi & Music Review Magazine September/October 2002 Reviewed by Bruce Kinch |
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Series III:
COMET

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Four adjustable-height energy-absorbing Leveling Feet with level bubble |
Non-Vacuume. Open Spindle only -- No clamp. |
Thick, massive platter: dampening material sandwiched between two layers of precision-machined 3/8" Plexiglas |
Rega S300 Tonearm. (Phono Cartridge separate.) |
Satin Black |
$934 |
"The Comet S300 Turntable is the best I have ever had. Well worth the investment. 100% satisfied." Jonathan C., Jacksonville, NC, September, 2002 |
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| Rega S250 Tonearm. (Phono Cartridge separate.) |
Satin Black |
$824 |
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MOONBEAM

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Four adjustable-height energy-absorbing Leveling Feet with level bubble |
Non-Vacuum Turntable |
Heavy 3/8" thick Plexiglas platter |
SOTA's VLMT Tonearm and Hinged Dust Cover (Phono Cartridge separate.) |
Gray Matrix |
$543 |
"I found the Moonbeam slightly harmonically richer (especially in the upper-mids) than the Music Hall MM-5, ... " Stephan Harrell, The Absolute Sound, Issue 135, April/May 2002 www.theabsolutesound.com |
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