The Love of Turntables and The Organization Of An Audio Room

I love turntables as well and would probably own more than one if I had the space. As it is, I've shoehorned my audio system into a relatively small spare bedroom that also doubles as my photography studio. It works, but just barely. Still, I'm thankful to have a system at all after losing my previous dedicated listening room to a whole-home renovation ten years ago (happy wife...).

This time around, I vowed to keep things super simple: a turntable, an integrated amplifier with an internal phono stage, and a pair of stand-mounted loudspeakers. I don't know whether it's simply the joy of having a system again or the dumb luck of component synergy, but the quality of sound I'm getting now seems leaps and bounds better than before - and this system cost about one-third as much as my previous setup.

So I'm happy. But at the first opportunity, I'm going shopping for a second turntable  

@neonknight You are not going to get any help from me AT ALL!  Quite simply the very idea that it is even remotely possible to have too many turntables is an oxymoron in my book.  Carry on and keep up the good work!  I would encourage you to consider my rule of thumb:  Whenever possible it is optimal to limit your self to one tonearm per turntable.  So, one for each: Stereo (mm), mono (mm); stereo (mc), mono (mc).  Then there is DD and BD to add variety, linear tracking.  Different arms of different lengths.  We are working on a second house now to accommodate, but I don't recommend that, traveling back and forth is getting to be a hassle.  Anyway, it is a form of dementia.  It takes one to know one. ;-)  The important thing is to have fun.

@neonknight I recently posted my own indulgence with TTs, which has now come to an end, and sales of stored TT's are to occur in the very near future.

My BD -- ID  - DD TT's will most likely be reduced to a few versions of DD TT's and just possibly a project to create a design for an ID, being a Lenco GL 75, I own an NSC, which is the Nigel from the well-known Nigel Speed Controller; own personal design/model, Nigel confirmed the provenance when I acquired it. I have all the GL 75 parts needed and will have a custom design main platter bearing.  

Vintage Japanese DD TT's are the turntables of choice; models undergone redesigns are the ones which are the keepers, and supersede all other TT's used.

Owning multiple TT's for too many years has been generated solely by my want to A/B compare a factory-spec TT, inevitably with an unknown usage history, to a same-model TT having undergone substantial design changes for the required functions. Think of the TT apart from the commonly seen adornments as a new TT released design, due to under-the-hood parts not using materials used on the original, and dimensions selected for the mechanical interfaces being much tighter in tolerance than a factory spec.

I have enough Tonearms and Cartridges to produce 6 x separate TTs and Phon's + SUT's, which will enable four TT's to be in use if a structure is in place to prop them. 

There are Tonearms that are from Brands and remain as original spec, no longer used for many years. These models are superseded by a Tonearm that was a model from a Brand, but extensively modified to the working function, where much of what I have been demod in conjunction with it is poor in comparison.

Today, I am totally interested in a Vinyl Source in my home system currently in use and another system I am designing, which will be a sole SS System and gifted to my wife. A VJDD TT > SME IV? > Hana Cart' will also be the ancillaries to enable vinyl to be replayed.

The difficulties with making the decision to scale down on owned TTs were for a period, a wrestle with ambitions/intentions well established in the mind, with support for the realisation already organised.   

I have informed the support needed for my plans, and this is very well received information, as the time needed for their support is now one less consideration.

I know the mental constraint of hoarding and having an ambition/intention for the hoard. I also know when a win is had, the Pipe Dream has ambitions realised, but now has the full fruition for other TT's to be nothing but a Pipe Dream.

Such indecision, now becoming a clearly made decision, has proved to be very liberating. I really can move forwards with other ambitions; a New DAC is purchased, and subsequent DAC purchases are expected. Making discoveries is the priority; much travelling may once more become a side requirement to expand on experiences. The Digital Source is now to be taken to the most optimised I have ever considered for it. 

On the upside, 'pindac' might be witnessed as being less on the Analog section and more present on the Digital section of the Gon. Punching the air in Jubilation might create a feel-good moment.  

I have always strove for the maximum possible fidelity from my system at any one time. Therefore having multiple anything has never happened. I would always stretch and trade in on my next level component. I figured out early on that 2x investment (and a lot of careful research) would guarantee an important boost in sound quality. So, I have always been in that camp.

I can't help it but think that the quality of getting lots of different versions of the same thing may be a personal trait thing above all. But if you don't feel that way. Then absolutely having one really good turntable for the same given investment will sonically beat the pants off of having many.  

@neonknight 

If collecting turntables is your thing, that’s absolutely fine by me. It’s not for me though as I have neither the money to spare nor the space to accommodate more than one. I wouldn’t want to compromise the quality of the one I’ve got to acquire more. Sorry, I can’t comment on your turntables as the photos are not viewable in my region.