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VPI turntable again......

Hi,
I make my judgement on any product based on observation and common scense. I never own a VPI turntable and I never will since I don't believe in their design. The VPI design just don't make scense to me.

Let see some of the VPI's design....like the tri-pulley design. It just don't make scense at all....just the bearing(the one which support the platter) already make a lot of noise and you can hear it !!! Now add three tiny pulley and spinning at high speed.....I really don't know how many rpm. At that small size....may be a 800 rpm !!!! And there are a total three high speed pulley spinning at 800 rpm....It is a truly noise make machine !!!! Where did the noise goes? It has to go somewhere...it won't just disappear into thin air....again you can hear more noise and it all come out from you speaker.

And another design is two motor driving one pully and then the turntable.....no two motor turn with 100% accuracy...there is always some variation in speed...Beside one motor is noisy enough, now add two. Double the noise output. Where did all the motor noise goes? Again, you can hear it from you speaker.

If I made someone angry in my earlier post....I apology. I hope this post help you to understand why I'm saying what I said.

Peace.............
edle
edle OP
235 posts
 
Get a Verdier(the one with the magnet) or any high quality air bearing turntable and you will understand what I mean....my little grasshopper.

* The motor and platter/plinth must be on their own
sand damped isolation platform.
themadmilkman
182 posts
 
***Get a Verdier(the one with the magnet) or any high quality air bearing turntable and you will understand what I mean....my little grasshopper.***

Buy a Sirius III and you'll never listen to anything else. See? We can all make stupid overgeneralizing statements.
bamafan
74 posts
 
* The motor and platter/plinth must be on their own
sand damped isolation platform.

Not true with the air suspended VPI turntable. I have my HR-X sitting on a standard rack. You can rap on the shelf and no sound is heard through the speakers with the volume turned more than half way up. If that does not produce any noise through the system, then how in the world is motor noise going to be audible. My table is dead quiet. I have owned several models of the TNT. There has never been audible noise from the motor or flywheel on any of them that could be heard from the speakers. My system is capable of high resolution and if it was making noise such as you claim, I would think I would have heard it.

As an aside, no turntable including the Rockport, the Walker and the Verdier is perfect. They all have some sort of compromise.

VPI produces an excellent product. If you don't like it that is fine. However, it sounds like you have some sort of axe to grind.
fmpnd
481 posts
 
Ya know BAMAFAN, you are really starting to TICK ME OFF!! Where do you get off making statements like "They [all turntables] all have some sort of compromise?

Have you ever heard my Close & Play? Better yet, have you ever heard my Close & Play with a Cowsils 45 or my special edition of Rick Dee's "Disco Duck?" I can assure you it has NO compromises! Sheeesh!
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sbank
3,379 posts
 
This is the most entertaining thread I've read in weeks.

Edle, you're kinda like the person that knocked off Ken Jennings on Jeopardy, only different. BTW, I'm very interested in the Verdier tables. Please elaborate on your experiences with it, what arm, cart., phono stage, etc. and how does it compare sonically to other tables you've HEARD? Please name the tables you compare to.

Raul, never thought I'd say this, but welcome to our world.
This is grrrreat! Cheers,
Spencer
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