When I buy a brand new car it comes with a warranty.
I only asked about a warranty for people who don't understand the science behind the mechanical performance. ...Like a peace of mind for the cost some mentioned before.
I also found it funny that some people think $30,000 is expensive for a sota arm when their cart cost the same and their TT cost three to six times more. I won't even mention a pair of speaker wires (3 meters) for $30,000 (same as your linear tracking/scanning arm).
The question was simply to appease some "spirits". Of course I knew that with any state-of-the-art ultra hi-fi audio piece of electronics is like buying a Ferrari or Lamborghini with a warranty.
I'm still waiting to see the first ten members here who will test drive your arm and hear for themselves what it is to be on top of the actuality in the world of hi-end "grooving".
Like you said well; when they were cutting those records they weren't using Mickey mouse arms packed with tracking faults, and everything that come with it...from the outward to the inner grooves, the lesser lows, and the myriad of ritual adjustments for each record.
They will never know what they are missing in hi-end audiophile life without investing in the science of quantum mechanics.
I must admit that I'm surprised to see some big shots like Michael Fremer, Steve Williams, Mike Lavigne, David, Tango, Francisco, Marc, Peter, Myles, ...etc. not with the program yet.
...Analog Planet, WBF, Stereophile, AudioNivana, Audiogon, VinylEngine, QuantumPhysics, ...all that John Coltrane jazz & Frédéric François Chopin classical.
If the aim of high-end audio is to be @ the edge of what can be the best, what are they waiting for; procrastinate for another century?
I'm saying it like it is, uncensored and truer than life.
It's not what we believe in it's what we do with it, what comes out of the loudspeakers from them "sillons" (grooves). The best we can capture what's in them, between their walls, deep in the trenches, and with the greatest accuracy ... the closer we are to what was today.
This is no poetry, this is Sion.