Why is the price of new tonearms so high

Dear Detornarm: +++++ " We'll see. " +++++

this was the only wise/mature statement that you made in your post in reference to our UNIVESAL tonearm design.

+++++ " I will address those points all the "others" haven't even thought about before. " +++++

I don't know of other tonearm designers but we know that we address all those points """ that others even thought before """. No you are not the only one, there are a lot of people that are good enough on what they do and even that are better than you, of course we are not the ones that are over you.

+++++ " That tonearm will not work with ALL cartridges, but it will work with the 20-30 best. " +++++

well our design will work with those 20-30 best ( even if that 20-30 best already have your design. ) and with any other cartridge out there but the FR series 7.

+++++ " It will not work and can't be mounted on all TT's - but it will work and can be mounted on the best. " +++++

well our UNIVESAL tonearm will work on that only the " best TT's " and in any other not " best " TT.

+++++ " A tonearm - even with adjustable moving mass and interchangeable armwands - can never suit all cartridges. " +++++

ony because you don't know/imagine how to do it does not means can't do it because in our design we already do it, could you imagine????

+++++ " while I am in my TT project I will demonstrate my concept about a pivot tonearm too. " ++++++

fortunatelly I don't have the necessity to demonstrate anything to justified my .......????? like you.

and like you say: we will see.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Axel/Perrew: IMHO always better alternatives ( no only different but better ones in quality performance. ) must be welcome in our audio world.

We customers/audiophile deserve better quality performance level ( even if we don't ask for it. ) audio items.

Better audio items means ( between other things ) better quality sound/music reproduction that we can enjoy it through our audio systems.
Better new audio products means too that we can have not only one " better " product but several " better " alternatives due to a " better " competition designs.

Better means that we are growing-up/walking through a better audio experiences and all these is just exciting for say the least.

egards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Any idea on the pricing Raul? Just approximately?

I, for one, am really enjoying this thread. Dertonarm has reappeared with a slightly less overbearing approach, which I appreciate. I loved the German/European history lesson as my mother is from Saxony - a town called Wurzen. She witnessed the bombing of Dresden to later escape from the East and meet my American father serving in the army at the time. She told him "Ich bin sachsisch", which must have given him ideas....early on in their relationship:)

The two tonearm projects have me really curious to learn more from these two gentlemen. All in good time, I'm sure. This is Audiogon at its best.

I'm still curious about which is the most popular type of pivoted arm in use today. Does anyone know?

Dertonearm and Raul, I have a suggestion for both of you that you will find very useful if you are not doing or have not done this already:

I'm all for advancing the art. One of the most useful things I have done that has helped me immensely is to have been involved with the recording of LPs, from start to finish. By that I mean refurbish a recorder to do the very best it can, get your hands on a set of the best mics possible (barring that get a set of the same type used in recordings you are familiar with), set up and produce a recording, engineer the whole thing such that you have an LP that really does have good sound that can be compared to the master tape that played back on the master tape machine.

Once having done that you will find it a lot easier to separate the wheat from the chaff!