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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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retiredaudioguy
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I was going to suggest the ability to stack multiple LPs on top of each other and have them drop when the prior one has finished.

But I won't, because then it would have to adjust the VTA.  I am, of course, joking, because the record clamp issues would be tough to solve. No I am not serious.

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.

 

retiredaudioguy
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Re tone controls: many DACs have multiple filters and choices of sample rate conversion or DSD conversion.  And we do choose our interconnects and roll tubes to get the sound we want.

I remember my British Quad 33 preamp from the early 70's had bass, treble and slope controls and I think the current ones do also.

retiredaudioguy
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@dwette

There is no logic in it and I do not remember which 2LP set I was playing, but a couple of weeks ago there was a work and on no side change was I able to just flip the record.

I agree that 1&3 + 2&4 makes sense for the old drop and scuff systems.

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