What is going on? No-one buys good stuff priced right.

Hey, after all "Who wants to live forever?"

I believe it's not me and I guess it's not Vladimir Shushirin. Anyone?

Nop,
The number of fools decreases.

Now is the era of vintage receivers Pioneer SX xx80, sansui G 7000 or higher.
Folks realized that they sound super good and very often better than current hi-end units. In addition there's a HUGE advantage of having free service manuals with schematics over any current unit that doesn't have it. So to make long story short -- vintage receivers and amps are forever and other hi-end is temporary. Who's going to buy $5...10k 10...20 years old Lamm monoblocks? Only fools, because the smart one would look for serviceable unit.

Vladimir Lamm when had different last name, he also would provide schematics to his equipment known as Amphiton manufactured in early-mid 80's. I’ve had Amphiton when I was in 7th or 8th grade, but now my children are even older. When he’s gone, the equipment won’t be serviceable, but those vintage Pioneers and Sansui will be.
Hi-end temporary and good vintage stuff is forever.
How many high-end equipment isn’t serviceable anymore today? Wholebunchalot for sure.

Just got from estates a fully functioning flagship giant of vintage Japanese high-end Sansui AU-20000 complete with box and service manuals AND schematics!!!

WHATANAWESOMEPIECEOFGEARINDEED!

I think I've fallen in love again. It's an upgrade to most of integrated amps EVER built before. 

Features:
Fully adjustable MM/MC phonostages with load impedance and capacitance.
fully adjustable input levels of every input individually!
low noise floor and incredible dynamic control. 
switchable triple tone control -- got poor recordings, well, hey, no problem!
adjustable VU meters scale.
200wpc of continues power over the whole operating frequency bandwidth
internally switchable preamp out and poweramp in

Hey who wants to drag race with me hah?