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From: arris!rshapiro@uunet.UU.NET (Richard Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Linn LP-12 vs. SOTA Star vs. SimplyPhysics DarkStar
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Date: 13 Dec 90 14:06:08 GMT
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In article <8280@uwm.edu> stiv@stat6.rice.edu writes:
>(2) SOTA Star, with 2nd hand Premier FT-3 arm.  The deck is about 1.5 years
>...
>The SOTA seems like it might be a little dear at $1400, since I don't
>think that it's the most recent model. I may be able to negotiate it
>down, though. 


If it's really the Star, that's not a bad price at all. The SOTA Star
is the model with vacuum clamping. If it's a Sapphire (the next model
down from the Star; identical, I think, except it has only a spindle
clamp rather than the vacuum clamp), it's too much.  A used Sapphire
with a used FT-3 arm should go for more like $1000 (I've seen that
configuration in that price range more than once).