Why is the price of new tonearms so high

Dear Ralph: Thank you for your suggestion, I agree.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Perrew: +++++ " Any idea on the pricing... " +++++

Like in the Essential 3160 phonolinepreamp in this tonearm design we work with one and only one target: to achieve a top quality performance in every single part ( and overall ) of the item design with out any worry about price but only quality performance.

Till today ( that we are not totally finished the tonearm. I'm still making tests . ) we don't have the price not even something " around ".

We want to share this tonearm " new step " quality performance to the biggest people around. We are not audio " business " persons that mainly depend on audio money.

We ( Guillermo, José and I. ) made/make what we made/make because we like it, because we need to be/have better audio items that can help to improve the enjoyment of the pleasure to hear music in our each home, because we all share the same passion for the music and " perfection ". If through the time our designed/builded audio items could convert in an audio commercial bussiness then welcome but this is not our main target.

We already have on paper two other items: a TT and an amplifier, but these units will take a long time to see the " light ", maybe the shorter one could be a cartridge ( that we have on paper too ) that we don't have to build but only design it, we will see.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Raul, I applaude people that try to realize a vision!
Getting things finished, IMHO, takes calculated/projected time times 3.
So hopefully your arm will be out soon and I get to hear it. My analog voyage has just begun and I have yet to hear anything that can approach the rest of my system. So regards and enjoy life:-)

Dear Raul, sorry - my mistake - so far I mistook the situation. I always thought the ideas behind the tonearm project were yours, now I realize, that you are the one of your team responsible for public relations.
Now that makes sense.
I do no longer have to wonder about several of your sonic descriptions and technical statements.
My apologize for getting this wrong in the begining - I thought you were into design and technical aspects too, now I know that is not the case.
Cheers,
D.

Dear Dertonarm: Not really, we are two design teams: José and I for some design items and Guillermo and I for other audio devices.

Well you are your own marketing/advertiser manager at least with the FR tonearms that is your main target and commercial bussiness through Agon.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.