It's a Model and it's looking good: VPI's Model One turntable is simply stunning

We're very utilized to good-looking turntables, truthful a caller exemplary needs to beryllium beautiful spectacular successful nan looks section to get our attention. And nan Model One, nan caller high-end turntable from VPI, has decidedly turned our heads. It looks perfectly stunning, and its specification is beautiful typical too.

The Model One has a caller centrifugal thrust and platter module pinch a 500rpm belt-driven centrifugal and a two-speed pulley. The inverted base minimises interaction betwixt it and nan platter, reducing clash and boosting performance.

The prima of nan show is nan caller VPI-S tonearm. The 10-inch, S-shaped, statically balanced tonearm features coagulated aluminum architecture that VPI says eliminates conduit resonances, and there's some vertical search accommodation successful nan arm guidelines and azimuth accommodation successful nan headshell. Once again location are fancy bearings involved: ABEC 5 bearings for very debased friction, agelong life and chatter reduction. And there's a azygous continuous magnitude of precocious purity copper from nan headshell each nan measurement to nan RCA relationship for a axenic audio signal.

VPI Model One turntable: cardinal features and pricing

In summation to nan supra enhancements there's besides a caller 3-point floating suspension strategy that VPI says delivers "superior isolation" from outer vibration, minimising centrifugal sound and reducing vibrations from some soul and outer sources.

This is simply a precocious extremity turntable pinch a value that puts it firmly into money-no-object territory, but it's besides very upgradeable: it's portion of nan Forever Series, which is designed to past arsenic agelong arsenic that sanction suggests.

Both nan Motor Drive and Platter Module person been made pinch a modular creation that intends it should beryllium easy to service, adjust, switch aliases upgrade them; VPI promises that early upgrades aliases caller models will seamlessly merge pinch this platform, truthful you'll beryllium capable to return a Model One and make it a Model Two aliases a Model Three arsenic time, tech and finances allow. And there's a 10-year warranty for other bid of mind.

The Model One is distributed by Renaissance successful nan UK and Ireland, wherever it has an MSRP of £4,990 including VAT; successful nan US it'll beryllium $5,250 positive income taxation (so astir AU$7,919 aliases thereabouts). You tin find retired much astatine renaissanceaudio.co.uk/vpi.

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