The "Little Fwend" Tonearm lifter has one job to do and it does it beautifully, smoothly and gently and will do this for years and will look good doing it!

https://www.littlefwend.com/

You drift off to sleep, you pop out of the room, you get THAT phone call and you can now do all this safe in the knowledge that the record you are playing will keep spinning round but your tonearm and your cartridge will gently lift off at the end of the LP.

I have tried the cheaper Asian models (they kinda work but wear out after a year and are always loosing their setting and are wobbly and spongy in use)

and also the North American similarly priced competition which work but are not nearly as well finished cosmetically and are not as easy to micro-adjust which you will need to do once it is in place.

The "Little Fwend" is beautifully engineered and does it's one job spectacularly well.

There are a High version and a Low version and a new Disco version specifically designed for the Technics 1210/1200

It is very delicate and precise, and it operates like a precision instrument.

LITTLE FWEND: The lifting Mechanism: Safe. Smooth. Silent. Those were the most important aspects of the design. We experimented a lot finding the right relationship between spring compression force, travel, dampening and friction. Little Fwend lifts the tonearm smoothly and controlled with minimum use of force (and a little help from Newtons fwends). Little Fwend can lift tonearms with cartridges set up to 5 grams VTF.

Release Antenna: High carbon steel Roslau piano wire. Very low lateral force is required to release the mechanism.

Rubber Beam. Neoprene rubber padding lets the tonearm rest safely and stable even with the level a few degrees off both horizontally and vertically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCp3ioo7M5o&ab_channel= VANALtd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTu_fJc0xT4&ab_channel= MusicDirect

The "Disco" version for Technics is $395 and, if bought, the customer will receive a $25 refund.