VPI - SCOUT TURNTABLE W - JMW-9 TONEARM

VPI/SCOUT TURNTABLE

The VPI Scout is our Best-Selling Turntable! Call and Ask Us Why!

The VPI Scout is a smaller, more affordable version of the groundbreaking Aries, with a footprint measuring only 19' W x 4' H x 13' D.

The VPI Scout is Music Direct's best-selling turntable under $2000! Demand for this table is so great; VPI can barely keep up. The Scout has all the features you want in a high-end turntable: an outboard motor, a precision machined acrylic platter, and the amazing JMW-9 tonearm. The Scout is so simple to set-up; you can have the table up and running in just minutes. The sound is fast and detailed, closer than you might expect to the performance of the new HR-X at a fraction of its cost. The Scout/JMW-9 combo is worthy of the world's finest cartridges. See Art Dudley's amazing review in Stereophile where he writes, 'Go hear the VPI Scout right away. It's hard to imagine another way of spending $1600 that will add this much to your system!'

“Designer Harry Weisfeld has whapped the ball so far out of the ball park with this one, it isn't funny…One song is all it took - one verse, if you want to know the truth - to know that the Scout/JMW combination did an excellent job getting the notes off the record and weaving them into believable, convincing, rhythmically involving music…” —Art Dudley, Stereophile

'If you want to experience a huge taste of analog heaven without the hellish pricetag, the VPI Aries Scout deserves your attention.' —Editor’s Choice Award, The Absolute Sound

The JMW-9 tonearm is the perfect complement to the Scout, offering all of the advantages of a unipivot tonearm at a bargain price. The arm has a low friction bearing mounted on a solid stainless steel rod with markings to set VTA (Vertical Tracking Angle). As with the more expensive JMW-10 and JMW-12 arms, the tonearm assembly of the JMW-9 can be removed and replaced in seconds, allowing instant cartridge changes with multiple armwands. An RCA junction box allows any RCA-terminated interconnects to be used.

Bottom line: The VPI Scout is one the best values in all of analog! musicdirect has set up well over 100 Scouts so far and we can help you make the right cartridge choice for your system and tastes! Call any musicdirect analog consultant for more information.

The Standard JMW-9 uses the same geometry and mounting as the Rega RB300 tonearm and can be dropped right into the Rega arm hole with no modifications.

The Plus version of the Scout Master includes the JMW-9 Plus tonearm. This arm is wired completely with Nordost Valhalla wiring from the cartridge pins all the way through the cable junction box!

The Signature version of the Scout Master includes the JMW-9 Signature tonearm, wired completely with Nordost Valhalla wiring from the cartridge pins all the way through to the cable junction box, with 2.5 grams more effective mass than the JMW-9 Plus for greater cartridge compatibility (including lighter, low compliance cartridges), variable pivot fluid damping and mechanical anti-skate control.