I see where you coming from.

You must have seen "many" within the audio world, especially how to profit from"creating" the trend.

Personally I need not worry about this because if I don't have the desire I ain't moved by the propaganda from the "stock writer" or "aggressive" promotion. Nonetheless, from a third party point of view it will be very interesting to see if your prediction would materialise one day.

I have some hard to find records which I love to hear but then it will deteriorate every time I spin it. I do archive them with digital format but since the machine is there so I also make some "tape" for my own leisure.

Here is the Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac first recording which is now couple hundreds Pounds and I really don't want to scratch it so tape is easy option.

Thanks for the sharing.

"卷帶最大問題係D機返嚟多少有D毛病，要預咗執一執！？？？"

A service will be recommended if you don't know the history or even better with known faults. It looks complicated but to most engineers it is just like any other machineries, electronic and mechanical parts.

I am no electronic or mechanical expect and I don't know the difference in principle between 4 ohms to 8 ohms. I do enjoy DIY though and with the right manual in hand I don't mind having a go with simple repair.

So far all my machines had been repaired by me with minor issues, replacing the belts for the counter, replacing the electronic boards, putting new brake pad and the light bulbs for the VU meters like shown in the following video.

With information from the net and luckily ebay for most spare parts people could be able to carry out simple task. That's the fun of having the ownership, right?