3 Tonearms 1 preamp

Have you considered a creek pre? They are passive and should do a great job. OBH12 or 14

Thanks everyone!
The use of a passive preamp is interesting as well as installing a home made switch with rca jacks. It may end up I do one of these options.What I was hoping is to find a product that was designed to do exactly what I need. It seems that the need for a device such as this exists in other applications besides turntables and tonearms.

Bob there are certainly passive preamps with switching or devices such as the Manley Labs Skipjack, which is a very high quality input switcher. The problem is that the phono signal is the smallest, and most frail, signal in your entire system. Do you really want to add a switch box followed by another set of interconnects and have that signal compromised even further? Not to mention the variable of capacitance in adding all of this stuff. It's not a desireable answer at all. Better to get a phono preamp design that accomodates multiple inputs, modify your existing phono stage or add other phono preamps and run then into your available line inputs.

Good Point Veridian. This is the reason I posted the question. The problem is looked at from others and the solution is thought thru. I have one question though, how does a phono pre with multiple inputs arrive at this without switches, wires and jacks in the path?

Bob, to do what you want to do is a compromise, and you will have switches in the signal path before the RIAA EQ lifts the voltage of the signal, unless you use seperate phono preamps into seperate line level inputs in your preamp.

That said, if you choose to use swiching, keeping the wiring as short as possible, with the least amount of breaks, makes the most sense, and that generally calls for switching right at the input of the phono preamp. You still will have the switch contacts and the short lengths of wire, but at least you don't have the breaks and cable effects of additional interconnects and their added capacitance as well as the overall longer signal path.