My premium shipped out today. Hopefully I can post pics next week. I've got black and white art blades, a shaker motor, HD glass, and pin stadium lights ready to go.

Can you please include the installation of the 2 lower playfield balls in your video? This is my first ever pinball machine so I'm a little fuzzy on how to install them.

Does this require drilling into the sides of the cab to install? If so that is a no go for me.

I've been trying to figure out the model myself. I want to change out the speaker grill to these in silver/chrome and install a set of LE speakers:
https://www.playfield-protectors.com/Home/Details/uhXCuqkrmUO5HK0XeGWFpA?catgoryid=31&name=SPIKE2%20%20Speaker%20Grill%20Set...%20Covers%20-%20glossy%20black%20plus%20Speaker%20Grill%20Rings%20%20-%20multiple%20colors%20available%2C%20each%20set%20of%202

I just bought a pair of new Kenwoods and you can get speaker plates from pinball life for cheap: https://www.pinballlife.com/stern-spike-2-speaker-plate-for-525-drivers.html

The gold rings are just painted on the plates. Most likely OP covered them with the lighted rings

I've played the LE a lot. When people are not playing the machines next to it, the audio sounds crisp and vibrant. I put a lot of time on the premiums at TPF, but it was so loud with floor noise that I couldn't make out the audio.

I'm just upgrading because they look nice.

I think that's the price per plate, makes it a little more expensive than I initially thought. I'll need to get a light kit from you soon.

In other news my Premium is going to be delivered in 10 minutes!!!

Just got delivered! There is a hole in the box but doesn't look like anything was damaged! There looks to more cardboard and foam inside the hole.

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Good to know! I'll have pics posted tonight. I've got to install a shaker motor, art blades, and I've got some HD glass to put on it.

I'm fuzzy on it myself. From what I've read all models use the same amp, just a speaker difference between the 3.

This is my first pin so it took a while to set up. I installed a shaker motor, HD glass, and my GF installed the art blades, it took her like 5 minutes it was crazy.

Shout out to Zach @ Flip N Out for helping me get this machine!

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Thanks man! I just realized I left the foam behind Herman. Fuuuu... I'm too tired to screw with it tonight lol.

One of the cut outs was missing when I got the blades from Stern. I kinda like the blades without them, so no biggie.

I somehow scratched the shit out of my lower playfield during midnight madness. Thankfully I have novus on hand and got it looking new again. Time to wash my balls again.

I've noticed that my Marilyn led on the left inlane is constantly dimly lit. It still flashes and gets bright, but it never turns off. I've power cycled and and reset to factory settings but it's still on. Is anyone else having this issue?

If this isn't code related what else should I check for?

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I checked the connections and reseated the LED connector. Maybe the LED board is bad? Everything looks ok. It's definitely the LED staying dimly lit.

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Yes, Marilyn is constantly turned on. I want to fix it so it behaves like every other inlane LED...

I got my speakers in today, once I get the 5.25 speaker plates in I'll finally be able to upgrade. I also got 244 million last night on .96 code. I hit MM for the first time and that was a blast. I'm really enjoying the risk/reward of stacking jackpots. I'll be upgrading the code tonight.

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I upgraded the speakers tonight. The sound quality is much better. The stock speakers sounded like "crunchy" when something like the Herman hurry up started. Now the sound is nice and crisp.

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I left it on 8 ohm. When set to 4 there is a dramatic loss of quality. Almost like the tweeters are turned off.

I had that message yesterday on my Premium. I went into the settings and disabled and re-enabled the switch and it cleared. Not sure what caused the alert

I ordered a pair of speaker gaskets so my speakers won't be pushed against the grill. While I was digging through the LE manual I also noticed there was an additional speaker plate. I wasn't sure what it was for so I ordered a pair as well. As it turns out, this is what creates the gold ring on the LE speaker box. I'll be picking up some silver paint this weekend and painting them, but they do look kinda cool on the Premium.

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I emailed Stern directly and explained to them that I didnt have an LE but wanted an LE look on my premium. Stern told me to give the part numbers to my local distributor so they could be ordered.

I ordered a set of your speaker lights but haven't installed them yet. I'm kicking around the idea of mounting the speaker lights behind the 5 1/4 plate so that light will only shine through the speakers.

Yeah tell me about it. This morning one of my pop bumpers starting going off on it's own. I had to pull the glass, lift the field and adjust a leaf spring in order to fix it. These shouldn't be issues on new machines.

It was a joke, looks like it set some some people off haha

I took off the plastic cover last week and cleaned the lower playfield, so far the dust hasn't come back.

I finally got around to installing my pinstadium lights this morning and then got an email saying the hovers were out. Great timing lol. They were incredibly easy to install. I connected the GI to a white bulb on the Lilly mono and the flasher to purple light in Grandpa's scoop. I might move the flasher to another location though. I haven't really played with the settings much but and I'm still not sure if this pin even needs the extra lights, but it's kinda cool.
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I turned the warm white down and it's looking much better

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I set a new personal high score tonight. People can bitch about the code all they want. I'm having a blast.

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Thanks. I'm running 1.0 code and have all the settings still on stock, except for ball save which is set to 15. Normally I hit 70-100 million with exceptional games going to 200 million but I learned a few tricks last night.

Spot has been killing me with a SDTM drain so I spent hours yesterday just practicing a backhand shot from the left flipper. Once I got that down I was able to hit the left ramp 8 out of 10 times with a backhand so now I'm also able to easily kick off Raven and Raven restart.

When I start a game I go after Lilly first since her letters reset after a drain, then I clear grandpa and go after spot since he is so risky. Mystery can also help out here if Spot isn't activated and give a chance for an extra ball or Raven. Next I get an extra ball from Grandpa since 3 characters are finished and then go for Herman, Raven, then Munster Madness and I cancel every super jackpot until I I have 6X.

Last night I cleared Munster Madness twice. Games on average lasted 5 minutes but now they are going on 20. The right outlane is still a bitch, so I also moved the post down and that has helped some. I've also gotten better with nudging so that's saved me a few times.

Also my vision isn't the best and I've drained during spot when the lights would go out after a hit, the pinstadiums have definitely helped me do a better job of keeping track of the ball.

I loved the Munsters but after 6 months I got bored of it and traded it for a GB Premium. I only have space for 1 pin so I wanted something more challenging.

That being said I'll still be playing it at my local arcade and I can't wait to see how the code expands. I'll be picking it up again but for now I'm out of the club.