VPI Prime Turntable with Fatboy 10″ Gimbaled Tonearm

Upscale Audio is the only VPI dealer in California that is VPI Trained & Certified to handle all of your VPI needs!

Ask about the HW-40 feet upgrade and our special cartridge packages. Flagship turntable performance at a reasonable price. Now available with VPI’s 10-inch Fatboy 3D Tonearm! 

With the Prime, VPI wanted to get back to its roots and focus on a table that offers quality high-end sound while taking advantage of improvements in technology. The Prime is Mat Weisfeld’s first solo design on a table with Harry’s approval as well as input from the rest of the VPI staff. 

The Prime includes the following:

• 10 inch 3D arm
• VTA Tower for VTA/SRA on the fly
• Classic 20 pound platter and bearing
• Outboard 300 RPM motor housing
• New “Prime” feet which offer improved isolation and better mechanical grounding
• Stainless Steel/Delrin record clam

The Turntable:

• Chassis made of black textured vinyl over MDF with an 11 gauge steel plate bonded to the underside for the ultimate in resonance control and feedback rejection
• Four solid Delrin corner assemblies designed for isolation and mechanical grounding!! A first
• A 300 rpm 24 pole AC synchronous motor capable of high torque and quiet operation installed in a separate aluminum and steel machined assembly

• Inverted bearing – hardened stainless steel shaft, 60 Rockwell chrome hardened ball, spinning in a phosphor bronze bushing and sitting on a PEEK thrust disc. The belt side load is placed at the center of the spinning bearing for zero teeter-tooter effects
• 20-pound damped platter machined from 6061 aluminum to +/- .001” in a 39” circumference!!!
• Motor pulley has an accuracy of +/- .0005” when leaving factory
• Wow and flutter: >.1%
• Speed Accuracy: >.03%
• Rumble: >85db down

The Tonearm:

• Pivot to spindle: 258mm
• Effective length: 273.4mm
• Overhang: 15.4mm
• Offset angle: 15.42 degrees
• Average RMS distortion: 0.311%
• Internal wiring: premium Discovery wire, optional Nordost Valhalla
• New design 3d printed one-piece body for the ultimate in resonance control.
• Full-length copper shielding tube internally
• Adjustable side weights for finer azimuth settings.
• Built-in “Easy lift” finger lift.
• Offset stainless steel counterweight for stability
• Easy setting of VTA/SRA in thousandths of an inch, calibrated and repeatable
• Adjustable anti-skate.