Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff?

@retiredaudioguy 

It pisses me off that pressings from the 60’s and 70’s often have sides 1&4 on one disk and 2&3 on the other - or even worse 1&3 and 2&4. And it gets really crazy with multi disk opera LP sets.

Do you have an example of that, and why would it even be done that way?

1+4 with 2+3 of course makes sense, or 1+6, 2+5 and 3+4 for a three LP set, or even 1+8, 2+7, 3+6, 4+5. I have enough of the 2-LP & 3-LP sets like that, but in my 50+ years of collection I’ve never see a 2-LP record set with 1&3, 2&4. I don’t get the logic of it.

 

Why not of great interest to audiophiles. An add on to a top end table?? The convenience is substantial.  

@kavakat1 I don't see a substantial convenience or really any convenience of substance. When a record ends I cue the arm and return it to the arm rest. No big deal. It takes all of two seconds or so. OTOH: adding a mechanism and logic to the turntable for auto-return of the arm just increases cost unnecessarily, and adds moving parts that can resonate, vibrate and introduce unwanted noise into the system. The added complexity just isn't worth it. And it's not going to damage your stylus if it plays the runout groove for a bit until you get up and cue the arm.

@roadcykler 

monoblocks and all the connections that go with them. Go figure.

You mean that pesky additional power cable?