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To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges

How do you 'play' your system?
For 30 years I had only one turntable, one arm and one cartridge......and it never entered my mind that there was an alternative?
After upgrading my turntable nearly 5 years ago to a Raven AC-3 which allowed easy mounting of up to four tonearms......I decided to add two arms.
RAVEN
A few years later I became interested in Direct Drive turntables and purchased a vintage 30 year old Victor/JVC TT-81 followed shortly after by the top-of-the-line TT-101 and I designed and had cast 3 solid bronze armpods which I had lacquered in gloss black.
TT-101
By this time I had over 30 cartridges (both LOMCs and MMs) all mounted in their own headshells for easy interchange.
STORAGE

Every day I listen to vinyl for 3-4 hours and might play with one cartridge on one arm on one table for this whole day or even two or three days.
I then might decide to change to a different arm and cartridge on a the same table or perhaps the other.....and listen to the last side I had just heard on the previous play.
I am invariably thrilled and excited by the small differences in presentation I am able to hear....and I perhaps listen to this combination for the next few days before again lusting after a particular arm or cartridge change?

Is this the way most of you with multiple cartridges/arms listen?......or are there other intentions involved?
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thuchan
1,009 posts
 
Lewm,
Toto is also a gambling platform in Germany where you can vote on soccer games. While I was in Japan I learned that Toto is not only producing toilets but a variety of sanitair products, also High End...A really interesting company but maybe not as fascinating as Toho and Micro Seiki.
So better go for Tohos. The Toho stand for armboards I can recommend very much, but it is not easy to find; very massive, coming with different hole inlays for different arm sockets.
lewm
13,118 posts
 
Yes. I know Toto make bidets as well as toilets. Probably sinks, bathtubs, etc, as well. Toho is nice too.
thuchan
1,009 posts
 
Agree, Toho is really nice, especially when two advanced technologies come together in the ToXiom arrangement, old and modern. I had some time playing around with the many options and versatility the Axiom design offers. Because of the different weights of my Toho tubes and the special geometry of the headshell design I needed more and some different lateral weights made of aluminum, steel, brass and wolfram. It looks to me quite sophisticated. Now I have to learn about the magnets' support of the vertical balance - seems to me a new feature which I have not seen so far.
Testing goes on...
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nandric
4,086 posts
 
Dear Thuchan, I see the usual Arche headshell on your ToXiom ( why not ToHiom?) and assume consequently the so called SME standard headshell. But because of different
wands weight as well the peculiar angle for the headshell(s)the lateral balance can be different for different wands. This is usual by the the 'J' shape tonearms. The 'magnet support' for the 'vertical balance' may mean the dynamic balance. As far as I know Dertonarm was always supporter of the dynamic balanced tonearms.
hevac1
812 posts
 
I have a large record collection with quite a few Mono albums. I use a Graham B-44 with 2 arm wands. 1 is setup for Stereo and the other Mono. My VPS has 2 MC inputs. I swap inputs for Mono Or Stereo as both cartridges use different loading.
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