One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer?


Which would you prefer, if budget allowed: one turntable with two tonearms or two turntables with one each? What would your decision criteria be?

And the corollary: one phono preamp with multiple inputs or two phono preamps?

Assume a fixed budget, but for the purposes of this question, the budget is up to the responder. Admittedly for this type of setup, there will be a sizeable investment once all components of the chain are factored in.

I'm curious to hear how people would decide for themselves the answer to this question. Or maybe you've already made this decision - what do you like about your decision or what would you differently next time?

Cheers.

dullgrin

Showing 1 response by clearthinker

One turntable with one arm.

But my arm is the Simon Yorke Aeroarm that is an air-bearing parallel tracker.  Alternative moving carriages (arms) can each be ptr-set up with a cartridge and swapped out in a couple of minutes - only need to slide the carriage on the bearing rod and disconnect and reconnect air-line and signal plug.

Best of both worlds, and parallel tracking too.  State of the art for ultra low-mass MC carts up to 10g such as vdH Colibri and Ortofon A95, both 6g.