Why is the price of new tonearms so high

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!

Dear Atmasphere, I recorded - as chief executive engineer the Johannes Passion by J.S.Bach in 1986 in the Munich Philharmonic Hall with Enoch zu Guttenberg conducting the Neubeurer Choir and Members of the Munich Philharmonic.
I am very familiar with your recording of the Canto General.
I know my stuff and have followed the suggested way over 2 decades past.
Have a great weekend.
Cheers,
D.

Dear Raul, relax........
And don't worry.
The world is eagerly anticipating your tonearm.
Mine won't be half that interesting to the avarage Audiophile connaisseur - as everybody knows now - thanks to Dr. Raul and his medical insight - that my hearing is set on the need for distortion.
It will still be entertaining for many to see these 2 approaches.
So - we'll see.
I hope you have a peaceful sleep - your last post directed to me have raised some concern about your peace of mind.
Cheers,
D.