Experience Why Premium Small-Batch Quality Never Goes Out of Style: U.S.A.-Made Fender x MoFi Electronics American Vintage Turntable Plays with Elevated Detail, Accuracy, Solidity, and Quiet
Every musician knows there’s no substitute for instruments crafted in small batches in the United States. So why settle for anything less when it comes to analog experiences in your home? The spectacular result of an encore collaboration between two legendary American companies, the Fender x MoFi Electronics American Vintage turntable harbors the same elevated levels of quality, care, precision, and premium sonics many of your favorite artists enjoy when they play in the studio or onstage.
Devised, engineered, and manufactured in the U.S.A., American Vintage features trademark elements associated with both American companies. Visually, it touts a satin two-tone tobacco sunburst finish that mirrors the enduring look of a 1954 Fender Stratocaster. Sporting a solid alder wood chassis and smooth finish, it bears a nameplate like the metal serial-number plates found on Fender guitars. Sonically, American Vintage exemplifies audiophile-grade excellence, with true-to-the-source vinyl playback that is exceptionally quiet and free of its own signature.
Measuring 6.0 x 20.75 x 15.5 inches (HWD), American Vintage arrives with every part and function having gone through extensive testing to ensure optimal performance. Optionally equipped with the equivalent of a guitar pickup – in the form of Mobile Fidelity's MasterTracker MM or UltraGold MC cartridge (select from the button option above) – for easy setup, American Vintage offers a built-in speed control that allows for on-the-fly changes between 33RPM and 45RPM along with illuminated single-button power operation.
The 25.5-pound American Vintage further turns heads via a sturdy, 6.8-pound Delrin platter that delivers deep-black backgrounds and a fantastically low noise floor. Delrin is chosen due to its natural impedance match with vinyl. Speaking of being made for LPs: A DC synchronous belt-drive motor offers excellent speed stability for stellar pitch accuracy and rhythmic drive. In addition, the constrained layer dampening build adds extra mass, eliminates coloration, and contributes to increased stability. It's another way American Vintage takes its purpose with utmost seriousness.
The high-end engineering traits extend to the 10-inch straight aluminum gimbaled bearing tonearm. Its rigidity and tracking prowess translate into hyper-accurate information retrieval. Cardas Audio wiring is included to maintain signal purity from the headshell leads all the way through the RCA connectors. Adjustable tracking force, VTA, azimuth, and enhanced anti-skate grant you simple fine-tuning options. A hardened-steel inverted bearing system complete with a sapphire thrust pad provides smooth, rotational stability while height-adjustable anti-vibration feet – co-developed with isolation experts at Harmonic Resolution Systems – further shield the 'table from disruptive resonances.
As it should, everything circles back to reproducing the information locked in the grooves of your LPs with engaging presence, naturalism, and solidity. That's why you also get high-quality gold-plated connectors shielded by a copper foil box to prevent airborne RF noise and a removable, hinged dust cover to guard against debris when American Vintage isn’t busy spinning records.
Head and shoulders above mass-produced rigs, American Vintage extends a distinctively American legacy Leo Fender started in his garage roughly eight decades ago and which Mobile Fidelity picked up on more than four decades ago with its first recordings. American Vintage stands as an authentic collaboration between two industry leaders and innovators – and a connection between history, music, and the artists you love that is both deeply personal and personalized.
To learn more about American Vintage and cartridge options, give us a shout at 312-433-0200.
MoFi MasterTracker MM Cartridge
Hand-built in Japan with cartridge housing milled from solid aluminum billet in the U.S.A., MasterTracker traces LP groove walls with surgical precision and accuracy, giving you a purist-based picture of what was originally cut in the mastering studio. Equipped with pure Ohno continuous-cast copper coils and a trademarked Micro Linear diamond stylus – shaped just like a lathe's cutting head – it mines the seemingly limitless amounts of information embedded in vinyl's microscopic nooks and crannies, presenting music with grand-scale cinematic scope and three-dimensional detail. MasterTracker plays with degrees of openness, clarity, and dynamics normally attributed to moving-coil cartridges. And its well-damped billet aluminum body yields payoffs you'll immediately hear: Unshakable reproduction of supremely complex passages and taut, edge-free bass.
MoFi UltraGold MC Cartridge
Crafted in Japan and uniquely voiced by Spiral Groove founder Allen Perkins, UltraGold MC offers analog lovers everything they would expect — and more — from an audiophile cartridge. Namely, exceptionally wide frequency response, clear high-frequency transients, stunning dynamics, tonal richness, and incredible detail. UltraGold MC goes further by providing true-to-the-source faithfulness, lifelike separation, and clean tracking. Attaining such heightened sonic prowess doesn't come easy. A nude Shibata stylus and boron cantilever help account for the palpable low-end reproduction, high transient responsiveness, and robust midrange while the Shibata profile diamond conveys hear-it-to-believe-it depth, immersion, and fullness. A neodymium magnet and permendur yoke deliver loads of magnetic energy. Topping off the mechanical hit list is a purpose-designed hybrid aluminum extrusion and brass housing.
