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In Reply to: VPI confusion posted by Mick Wolfe on December 13, 2025 at 14:05:41:
I would steer your friend away from VPI. I have a Prime (2020) and it has disappointed me. I'm a former VPI fan, having had a HW-19 Mk2 with Souther arm and a Mk4 with a Moerch Up-4 arm. Harry Wiesfeld designed great tables which would accept great arms. Matt is in over his head making tables and arms. The arm I got on the Prime was glued together twisted. To bring the head shell level, the side weights would be canted so far over that one was almost dragging on the base. Removing the base to replace it, I found that the Philips heads of the mounting screws into the plinth were stripped. Somebody preferred to cam out of the heads rather than use a screw driver with a torque limiter. VPI wanted stupid money to send me replacements for their damaged screws.VPI doesn't believe that skating force is real, but they provide a primitive anti-skate mechanism, providing hours of fun setting up.
My Prime sometimes generates gigantic static charges on records. The platter is not grounded and I guess that the belt drive creates an at-home Van de Graaff generator. The sparks that I get prying a charged record off the platter would blow up a solid-state phono preamp. My Tavish Adagio seems unfazed.
VPI did not anticipate the EAT Jo No. 5 cartridge when designing their record clamp. The Jo #5 rubs against the clamp on some records, jumping back into the lead-out groove. Matt promised to help solve this problem. That was 2 years ago.
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