The other thing you need to keep in mind about the $€£ of high-end components these days it that as the market rapidly and quickly contracts, the prices must go up to keep some semblance of profit as the unit sales go down. Just because a whatever costs 20K doesn't necessarily mean that it's thousands and thousands better. This and that there is a huge amount of Veblen pricing in this industry...

Anyway, I am in awe of how well the Techie responds to modification when addressing some of it's engineering tradeoffs. This thing is just amazing. It's so much better than the Rega Planar25 it replaced it's laughable. I'm seriously contemplating a megabuck arm, like a Graham or something similar. My experiences so far say that it will respond very well to it.