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@EdwardZ
Don't think its changed over the past dozen or so years. I think some people just want to piss on Campa.
I've got a Record Pista chainset and its fit/finish is quite good. I don't see much a difference from the finish on my late 90s Record Strada cranks which I view as the height of Campa metalworking: design, material and quality. If I compare the finish on my Sugino 75 with the Campa I might say that the Sugino might have a slight edge but the Campa wins on design. I've heard people complain about the finish on the rear of the spider but my Sugino 75 is no better. Hard to compare the alloys and forgings of the two with one another but they are both excellent and used at the highest level of elite competition--- being Japanese the Sugino has the NJS stamp but that does not mean that the Campa is ill-suited to Keirin only not-allowed on the Nippon circuit. The Dura Ace is very nicely made but has a quirkier bottom bracket. The standard Pista bottom bracket is more or less the same as the Y2K carbon cartridge with a 111mm axle (as used by Athena). Its a cartridge so not quite up to the level of smoothness one can feel turning a Hatta R9400-- the "standard" BB people tend to use with the Sugino--- with ones hand's--- and if that matters a friend made Ti bottom brackets for the old Campa Record road that one could turn by blowing at them---- but "on the track" the difference is below the measurement threshold. Stiffness? All are stiff enough. In today's European marketplace where the Campa Record is significantly less expensive (~200 EURO including a Campa track chainring) than the Sugino (~250 EURO without a chainring) I think the choice is pretty easy... unless one really absolutely needs the stiffness.. then its the Dura Ace (~350 EURO without a chainring).. All these use 144 chainrings so no problem mixing Campa, Sugino, Dura-Ace chainrings..