kronin323
Font of Useless Knowledge
I was looking at the Lambda for my first top, but passed because I wanted the Tungsten version and it was long gone. You nailed it with the Brass version supposedly being the best balanced because of its one piece design. It may not break any spin time records, but it should spin stable and motionless. Be mindful not to drop your Lambda from too high as your crank your spins, the ruby, although very hard can crack. Once you loose the bearing it's over. You might be able to poke it out due to the stem being hollowed, and press fit another bearing in, but that's a pain you'd want to avoid. Also, for better spin times and to keep your top in one area, I'd recommend buying a cheap 3x-5x magnification makeup mirror for your spinning surface. The concave due to the magnification will help settle your top quicker and the glass surface gives it a more frictionless point of contact.
Those Prometheus lights are nice and tempting, but the top thing is my priority right now, haha. Maybe down the line I'll break down and grab one of his lights.
Yeah, I would have gotten the ceramic Silicon Carbide contact point were it not for the see-through effect you get with the hollow spindle and Ruby. It's a risk but I decided f*ck it, go for it.
I've got a 5" 12x mirror arriving tomorrow from amazon; it's the one he recommended. Lots of options out there, though. Probably will end up with two, one for the office and one at home.