"New" model VPI?


Anyone had an advanced listen  or have one of these?

Perhaps fans that live in driving distance to them have seen/heard it?

VPI's new turntable has a modular design for easy upgradeability | What Hi-Fi?

Plenty of competition in price point.

Arm?  Suspension? From just looking at pics-meh...not in a negative way. Just nothing groundbreaking or unique?

Thoughts on it for a "base" with an aftermarket arm?

Looks typical "VPI"  again, not in a bad way.

Satisfied longtime Classic user. Doubtful I'll stay with brand, come upgrade time unless something REALLY catches my attention.

The Classic will become my frankentweak when the time comes.

tablejockey

I have some curiosity about this table myself having been both a previous Classic owner as well. If it has the mass of the Classic plinth in addition to suspension, it might be worth looking into. The new motor sounds nice, too. I’ll look forward to checking it out in Capital Audio Fest in a few weeks if it shows up there, which I’m almost certain it will. 

I’ve since moved on from the Classic to a Clearaudio Innovation Wood and also deal Pure Fidelity turntables which I prefer over the VPI I had, but in my experience the weakest link of my two VPI setups were the JMW arms. Even with the 12” 3DR and dual pivot, it didn’t deliver nearly as good of sonic performance as a few other high end tonearms. 

It's a modern day HW-19 with updated technology.

Still use a custom HW-19 as my reference table.

 

Right @mofimadness, the biggest difference being that the HW-19’s floating subchassis was isolated from the base and plinth with a 4-spring suspension. Also, the HW-19's top plate was a sheet of aluminum (stainless steel in the Mk.4 iteration) bonded to a 1/2" thick sheet of acrylic.

 

"Pure Fidelity turntables which I prefer over the VPI I had"

Blisshifi, PF appear to be a notch above VPI in build. Never heard the brand, but all the reviews suggest you get what you pay for.

"It’s a modern day HW-19 with updated technology"

mofimadness, that’s what came to mind.

More detailed info

https://www.techradar.com/audio/turntables/its-a-model-and-its-looking-good-vpis-model-one-turntable-is-simply-stunning

500 RPM motor- curious what the thinking is here? VPI was stuck on 300 RPM motors. Still no real time speed control like Phoenix  RR(now SOTA)

 

According to this:

https://trackingangle.com/features/vpi-introduces-new-model-one-turntable-part-of-a-new-upgradeable-forever-series

The 500RPM motor is for the 230v countries.

The Stainless Steel/Acrylic top plate was on the MKIII and a few of the first MKIV HW-19's.  I was a VPI dealer and Harry told me that stainless steel became too expensive and they switched to a black metal/acrylic top plate later on in the MKIV version. 

I upgraded a bunch of these tables, way back in the day for people.  I know the HW-19 tables very well  :-)