Goldmund Studio - still relevant today?


In today high-end world (very small, and shrinking every day), is Goldmund Studio still relevant? Is it's performance still on par with similarly priced tables, or is it a dinosaur? Is it's value still in performance, or is it mainly a collector's item? What do you guys think? I refer to late models with all-acrylic body, and JVC motor, and T3F arm, which actually work, not the early ones, which seemed to have a mind on their own :-)) They normally command at least $2500 on used market, up to $4000 for perfect examples.
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Harold, The plastic box in which my cart was posted is the box

with Axel's marks. Aka the same box which Axel uses for years

to post his repaired carts. The box has foam layers such that

the cart can't move. Your complaint that the cart was damaged

in transport because of my wrong packaging is not consistent with

your listening result. As you stated: ''excelent sound quality with

60 LP records''. Extraordinary result with an cart damaged because

of my bad packing? BTW not all (MC) carts have stylus protector.

But as I mentioned the stylus was also missing . Probaly stolen

by some postman involved by transport of your packet to my

 home in Holland (sic!) Strange because in 40 years that I live

in Holland I never missed any packet nor the robbed one.

Anyway this was the reason to post the cart again to Axel who retiped the cart with the same stylus (fine line) pressure fitted in aluminum alloy cantilever. For the same price of 250 euro as

 the first retip.

I am A'gon member since 2007 and wrote 2507 contributions

in this forum. I never accused any member about any wrong

doing all this time. You are the only one . So in this sense you

are surely special. I don't even believe that we have had any

 dispute about any cart or other component.  But our present

dispute will be valued by the members according to your and

my arguments. Besides I lend you one of my carts without any

obligation from your side. The only reason being to hear your

opinion. My comrad Don was very impressed by this cart so

I wanted to hear some other's opinion. I got this cart destroyed

back from you and you want my opology???  My Gosh! You

should consult some specialist for such cases.

Since pivoting arms are so good now, it seems linears just aren't worth the trouble. Rockport's was the last great TT. Pumps, hoses, motors. You look at them wrong and you'll spend the next 2 days fiddling with it and the Goldmunds had a reputation of instability. What if you need to replace a part of which there were many. Not repair, replace. Going to have to find a machine shop and pay.
The only problem I know off is the motor. The German motor is
not available anymore so the ''model'' with this motorr should be avod. The later motor was Japanese (JVC?) which was more reliable.