I agree.

I bought a used, first generation 55" LG OLED screen a couple of years ago, 2.5 years old at the time for £500. It first retailed for £8000. My 6th gen SD Panny plasma, bought for £1850, eventually went to a charity shop when I couldn't even shift it for £50. The class leading Philips DVD/SACD player with SDI output which was the best in class prior to the Oppo '83, dropped from £600 I paid, to £59 on eBay.

Meridian's analogue stuff, 551, 502, 555, 557 and dedicated CD players that Bruce noted above, have been pretty much rock steady in price since around 2005/6. It's the DVD players and processors which have dropped with the advent of Bluray, 4K, and market demands for ever newer audio "must haves". As many of us have found, properly designed and built legacy Meridian kit often trounces modern "mainstream" boxes for sound quality, despite their long-as-your-arm feature lists.

Cheers

George