Whydontumarryit I might suggest that the issue isn't the quality of the recordings, no one, to my knowledge, is making that claim. And if would be near impossible to prove that unless there were gross errors in production. Can you imagine telling a judge that the soundstage wasn't as ephemeral we you expected? Rather the issue is that the monitary value has fallen because false claims by the manufacturer have been publicly revealed. Their legal claim says they paid a premium price for something that wasn't as described, and therefore suffered financial damages. Now I haven't a clue if that's true or not, I'm not in the high end lp market, but at least it's something that could be reasonably argued in court.