Why is the price of new tonearms so high


Im wondering why the price of new tonearms are so high, around $12k to $15k when older very good arms can be bought at half or less?
perrew
Dear Perrew: I wonder why a person like you that are a non-analog one ( at least I can't see any analog audio tem in your system. ) has an analog product question?

Could you explain it?

Thank you in advance.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
Raul,

the reason you dont see any analog items is I dont have a complete rig up and running yet but Im trying to put together something sensible to see if it can compete with my digital. So far I have 1 TT, 1 cart and 2 phono stages.
Atmasphere, its not a necessity but the two I own at the moment are single ended, one tubed one ss. Anything particular in mind?
Pär,
Just in case the posting rules might not allow him to say so, Atmasphere is the manufacturer of a tube-based fully-differential balanced phono stage embedded in his all-tube fully-differential balanced preamps (either the MP-1 or MP-3) found here. I am not aware of a separate phono stage product.