Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table

If you have the shelf space, there is the option to add tonearm pod(s) as a way to make your SOTA a multiple arm unit:

VPI is working on one and should be available in in the near future - vpiforum.com • View topic - The Pod

This site does custom work - Armboards, Pods & Plinths | magna-audio (wixsite.com)

This is a UK site but shows some options - Tonearm Pods For All Applications. NEW Premium Product FROM £199.99 - Acoustand Audio

Just some thoughts, and not sure how the pods which are fixed would work with the suspended SOTA table

elliottbnewcombjr1,269 posts11-27-2020 7:04ammy 3 arm TT is shown in the last photo of my ebay LP listing’s

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133587830551


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My oh My that is a busy one..  I like it.. Tinker fest...:-)

Regards

You must have a great relationship with the boss(S.O.) 

More than one anything, I get the "look"

Elliott is the person that inspired me to build a Victor based TT. I to have a CL2P plinth with the two arm boards but I'm using the TT 71 motor drive instead. I wanted the ability to try multiple tonearms so being a machinist I made new armboards out of 3/4" thick aluminum plate. I machine a recess to take smaller sub plates made out of 1/4" aluminum plate that can be swapped out in just a few minutes complete with arm and cartridge. I made it to a degree of precision that as long as I don't disturb any settings, the arm, cartridge and sub plate will just drop back in ready to play.Right now I'm using an ATP-12T with some mods I did in the back position and a Victor UA-7045 on the right side.If you go to AK and look up the thread " JVC QL-?? owners thread" , starting on page 11 and ending on page 12 are some pictures of my build.
I think it was rather innovative the approach I took to building new armboards for this TT. I don't recall seeing anything else quite like it.I have a Victor UA-7082 on deck to be mounted next, just have to machine the sub plate. Hopefully it will be completed sometime in the next two weeks. After that, I have a Fidelity Research FR-54 to experiment with thanks to my friend Elliott.

BillWojo

So my solution was to leave the Brinkmann go. I still have the Audiomods Series 6 arm here, and that can go on the SOTA as I have another arm board that fits that arm. So if I choose to audition another cartridge then I can do it on that arm, just remove the SME V and Proteus and not have to worry about uninstalling it or setting it back up at another time. 

The Well Tempered stays as it is a great platform for the ZYX 4D cartridge, and it was my least expensive table. I find I enjoy it for casual listening, so in a way it gets the most play time. When the ZYX diamond is too worn, it will go to Expert Stylus to get fitted with a new diamond This can be done with the stock cantilever, so with a tune up by an experienced technician I believe I will get a cartridge back that is as close to stock as possible. While the Paratrace diamond may be different in some respects to a microridge cut, i think the differences in mass will be negligible and the stock cantilever assembly being preserved will be of more importance than variations in diamond cut. 

The Esoteric E-03 accepts two inputs, so both tables are wired to it I can remove the Graham Slee, and the Accession and Elevator will be going to a friend of mines to be used in his system. So I free up some capital, gain a bit of real estate in my cabinet, and simplify the system. I have two decent tables that are enjoyable to listen to, and brings the system configuration into an arrangement that meets my needs.