Vintage automatic turntable recommendations?

I would refer you to the thread “Best Tonearm Lifter”

There are plenty of recommendations you can look at on You Tube.

 I chose the Tru-lift. I have highly recommended it after using it on my LP12 and soon to be adding it to my Kuzma “pipe bomb”

It is a little Spendy but is well bullt and works perfectly. No effect on SQ that I can hear. Has increased my enjoyment of my vinyl.

 I just get lost in the Music and if distracted by something. The Tru-lift does its job.

I remember my old turntable in the 70's was an automatic, it was a Pioneer PL516 if I remember correctly. But there are a lot of automatic Pioneer's around. It had an automatic return. I do remember one that was fully automatic but can't remember the make or model.

kidhominid,

Have you explored the Yamaha PX-2?

Hard to find and not inexpensive, these were about $900 circa 1980 although you might be pressed to find one in perfect condition for that price today. 

Built like a tank, they are stunningly beautiful and genuinely "high end" linear tracking and fully automatic turntables. 

The Absolute Sound raved about it, despite competition from a variety of fully manual turntables and tonearms of the day.

Even more rare and exotic, I believe there was also a PX-1 but that may have existed mainly in Japan.

There were others that were perfectly decent including the Yamaha PX-3, Mitsubishi LT-5V and LT-30 but the PX-2 and PX-1 were on another level of build quality and performance.

Good luck and Happy New Year

Revox B790 DD Linear track.

Denon DP-47 is very nice w/ low mass tonearm. I had one it is spectacular. Make sure everything works as it is fully auto.