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Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table

Currently have three tables on the system, and have run at least two for a number of years. I do remember back when I was younger and had fewer greenbacks to my disposal that I would run one table that was the best I could afford. That is actually my M.O. - only one of each. But I have broke that trend with turntables. 

But as I sit here and listen to my main table, a SOTA Cosmos Eclipse withe SME V and a Transfiguration Proteus I wonder why I bother with the others. Also residing on the stereo cabinet is a Well Tempered Reference with a ZYX 4D on it, and a Brinkmann Bardo with Audiomods Series 6 and Ortofon A90 on it. Both are very nice sounding tables, but neither are on the same level as the SOTA. The Brinkmann might have more I can coax out of it with a better arm, and that is something I have considered. 

Yet I wonder, why bother? Sometimes I think I should buy another cartridge on par with the Proteus and just rotate them when one goes off for refurbishment. 

This is what I get for thinking on a quiet weekend morning and having too much coffee....
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billwojo
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Elliott is the person that inspired me to build a Victor based TT. I to have a CL2P plinth with the two arm boards but I'm using the TT 71 motor drive instead. I wanted the ability to try multiple tonearms so being a machinist I made new armboards out of 3/4" thick aluminum plate. I machine a recess to take smaller sub plates made out of 1/4" aluminum plate that can be swapped out in just a few minutes complete with arm and cartridge. I made it to a degree of precision that as long as I don't disturb any settings, the arm, cartridge and sub plate will just drop back in ready to play.Right now I'm using an ATP-12T with some mods I did in the back position and a Victor UA-7045 on the right side.If you go to AK and look up the thread " JVC QL-?? owners thread" , starting on page 11 and ending on page 12 are some pictures of my build.
I think it was rather innovative the approach I took to building new armboards for this TT. I don't recall seeing anything else quite like it.I have a Victor UA-7082 on deck to be mounted next, just have to machine the sub plate. Hopefully it will be completed sometime in the next two weeks. After that, I have a Fidelity Research FR-54 to experiment with thanks to my friend Elliott.

BillWojo
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