VPI Classic Signature Turntable

VPI Classic Signature Turntable Offers Stellar Build Quality, Brilliant Engineering, and Whisper-Quiet Operation That Allows You to Focus on Your Favorite Music

The VPI Classic Signature Turntable is a beautiful, belt-drive beast with a price-to-performance profile that breaks new ground. The Classic Signature embodies the hallmarks of VPI turntables: stellar build quality, premium parts, sci-fi aesthetics, ultra-quiet operation, and most importantly, sonic performance that offers staggering clarity, superb detail, magnificent soundstages, and remarkable dynamics. After all, a key goal of owning a turntable is to draw you closer to your favorite music, and the Classic Signature fulfills that promise, with its steady reliability and stunning sound.

New Jersey-based VPI Industries has won accolades around the world for elegant turntables such as the Scout 21, Prime 21, and the HW-40. The Classic Signature extends that legacy in glorious fashion. VPI engineers have succeeded in their goal to make an audiophile masterpiece with a straight tonearm that would offer sonics as lifelike and impressive as any turntable in its price class.

At the heart of this musical instrument is a 300 RPM precision, low-noise AC synchronous motor that drives the belt pulley with surgical accuracy (+/- .0005"). As is always the case for a VPI turntable, the platter is a work of art in and of itself. For the Classic Signature, the platter is 20 pounds of machined aluminum and stainless steel with a precision inverted bearing.

The turntable's weight adds to its rock-solid stability, and the meticulous design incorporates dampening elements throughout. Custom feet ensure that the turntable's motor is isolated from any potential environmental vibration. The chassis is bonded to a ¾-inch thick sandwich of aluminum and steel attached to the top, making the chassis a hefty 30 pounds on its own. The Classic Signature also includes the JWM-10-3D-Gimbal Standard Wire.

The solid, non-resonating, laminated one-piece MDF chassis is available in three gorgeous finishes: Piano Black, Black Ash, and Walnut. You can audition this incredible turntable with the confidence and peace of mind that come with our 100% Music Direct Satisfaction Guarantee.

“Overall, the VPI Classic Signature has a rich, full, smooth, and luxurious sound compared to other turntables in its price category. With the obvious mass and the effort put into dampening resonances, I noticed no ill effects from any sort of feedback despite my two REL G1 Mark II subs sitting on either side of my audio rack. The imaging was excellent, easily equivalent to what I experience with the digital section of my system.”
— Paul Wilson, Future Audiophile