Uber, I've read a lot about the Nagaoka carts and you're not the only one reporting hundreds of hours with no ill results. That's a good deal! I think I paid about $650 for mine, that was 5 years ago. Now that I think about it, I probably have more hours on mine than I thought, although it has been out of service for a while. It was on a table that I hardly ever use anymore the last 2 or 3 years. I recently had it on my SL 1200 MKII and it sounded great, but I had to give my new Denon DL301 MK2 some time to break in.