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


I'm listening to my old Technics 1700 turntable, which has the tonearm return/ shutoff mechanism. It's one of the reasons I don't upgrade. The idea that you have to get up to retrieve the cartridge and turn off the machine makes little sense when the technology has been there for years. I know the issue of the mechanism introducing sound into the table, but it seems to me that the mechanism can be isolated and kept off until the record ends. What gives?

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The spindle stackers were terrible because the records would get scratched when one dropped on another. as others have said, I think there are some decent semi automatic tables, but all that I know of that claim to be high-end are manual. I don’t mind getting up to turn over the record, but old men, at least this one, tend to fall asleep, listening to music and that’s a problem

the little fwend worked about half the time for me, but that likely had more to do with my ineptitude than the product