Are you guys really saying that all of the developments and advances in turntable technology have been futile as the stuff made in the sixties was as good as it can get? Just to be clear here?
Pretty much, we're well into the realm of diminishing returns here. It's not like Moore's law with CPUs, that every two years processing power doubles. The amount of R&D and engineering quality a large 60s/70s electrical company can throw at something, dwarfs anything a man-in-his-shed can get close to.
I think there's a lot of romanticism around certain Hi-Fi kit- that some bloke made a turntable in his shed and took on the might of Sony/Technics/Garrard etc. seems to play to a lot of people's mind set.