When I was a young man this was an important issue for me. So much so that it swayed me to buy a Rabco SL-8E arm when that was considered state of the art. It did lift at the end of play I'll give it that much. I also bought a Mitsubishi EC-1, which is still kicking I believe. I gifted it to a starving college student a few years ago. I'm not sure why or when this feature stopped being important to me. Probably the CD introduction did it. When I just want to kick back with music as a back drop like right now, I just pop in a CD. When serious listening is the priority then needing an automatic arm is not necessary or even desirable quite frankly.
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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