VPI Prime Turntable with Fatboy 10" Gimbaled Tonearm

Name: VPI Prime Turntable with Fatboy 10" Gimbaled Tonearm
SKU: 468389

Upscale Audio is the only VPI dealer in California that is VPI Trained & Certified to handle all of your VPI needs!

Ask about the HW-40 feet upgrade and our special cartridge packages. Flagship turntable performance at a reasonable price. Now available with VPI's 10-inch Fatboy 3D Tonearm!

With the Prime, VPI wanted to get back to its roots and focus on a table that offers quality high-end sound while taking advantage of improvements in technology. The Prime is Mat Weisfeld's first solo design on a table with Harry's approval as well as input from the rest of the VPI staff.

The Prime includes the following:

10 inch 3D arm
VTA Tower for VTA/SRA on the fly
Classic 20 pound platter and bearing
Outboard 300 RPM motor housing
New "Prime" feet which offer improved isolation and better mechanical grounding
Stainless Steel/Delrin record clam

The Turntable:

Chassis made of black textured vinyl over MDF with an 11 gauge steel plate bonded to the underside for the ultimate in resonance control and feedback rejection
Four solid Delrin corner assemblies designed for isolation and mechanical grounding!! A first
A 300 rpm 24 pole AC synchronous motor capable of high torque and quiet operation installed in a separate aluminum and steel machined assembly

Inverted bearing - hardened stainless steel shaft, 60 Rockwell chrome hardened ball, spinning in a phosphor bronze bushing and sitting on a PEEK thrust disc. The belt side load is placed at the center of the spinning bearing for zero teeter-tooter effects
20-pound damped platter machined from 6061 aluminum to /- .001” in a 39” circumference!!!
Motor pulley has an accuracy of /- .0005” when leaving factory
Wow and flutter: >.1%
Speed Accuracy: >.03%
Rumble: >85db down

The Tonearm: