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Is there any reason other than nostalgia for the seeing fascination with 80's Technics equipment?

I've seen (what I consider) stupid prices being asked & seemingly achieved for old stack systems.

Are they really that good, or is it a case of trading off the status of the SL-1200 TT's?
 
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