Technics SL-1200G costs $4,000 because original manufacturing tools “were gone”

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK :

  It was soon realized that the FOGBANK material was a 
  potential source of problems for the program, as few 
  records of its manufacturing process had been retained 
  when it was originally manufactured in the 1980s, and 
  nearly all staff members who had expertise in its 
  production had either retired or left the agency.

I do like to hear music and after buying several more and more expensive earphones/headphones you come to see it's just about certain signature on the music... or in layman terms... EQ.

I used to research more and more in forums like head-fi but suddenly you realize there is no way to translate, measure or get an agreement on what things mean, e.g.

>good texture and detail, not particular sweet in tone but good in vocal. Treble is decently crisp and clean, but rolls just a tiny bit off on the very top of the spectrum, over the 16kHz region. Bass extends decently low, but slowly rolls off in the sub-bass region

With that said, I find hard to believe digital "always the same" encoded music is inferior to this analog-vinil-trend...

It's sad though - in the same way that it costs $500 or whatever it is - to go to an NFL game nowadays (which I wouldn't know anyway). Anything of real high quality has to be priced out of reach of the average person. There's always Walmart for most of us I guess.

Not knocking Technics, what they say may very well be true, but I do miss the days when the best wasn't impossible to obtain for most of us.

Anyway, there's ebay and the original 12s. If you're into vinyl don't even play around.