"Harry and the VPI team are to be cobgratulated. A good wet cleaning machine opens up the latent power lurking in secondhand record shops, as well as spring cleaning your existing collection." - Reuben Parry, HiFi+

"I have found the HW 16.5 to be an outstanding performer. The record surfaces are microscopically clean and are so prestine they look new!" - Bert Whyte Audio Magazine

VPI's Scout turntable is set to follow in the illustrious footsteps of the HW19, VPI's previous entry level turntable which redefined the performance expectations at the price.

When Harry Weisfeld set out to design a new entry level turntable, he started with a clean sheet and felt that the design work he'd done on the Aries 2 represented a good starting point. A 28 mm thick piece of MDF is bonded to a 12 gauge steel plate, making a damped chassis unsing the principle of constrained layer damping. The platter is a 34.5 mm thick piece of acrylic and runs on an inverted bearing of Teflon and brass thrust plate running on a steel shaft hardened to a 60 Rockwell hardness, a lower cost version of the bearing used in the TNT HR-X. The motor sits in it's own cut out in the mains chassis, totally isolating the motor from the chassis which holds the bearing and the arm, with the only connection between the two being the Aries 2 belt. The motor itself is a very high quality AC synchronous motor enclosed in it's own steel housing. Sitting on 4 feet and without suspension, the Scout is a very easy turntable to setup, and is either supplied pre drilled for a Rega tonearm or a JMW-9 tonearm.

For a very modest price the Scout turntable offers a very solid platform for vinyl playback, with sophisticated isolation of motor vibration from the main bearing and arm, whilst the inverted bearing is incredibly quiet in operation.

The Scout has received rave reviews around the World and redefines your listening expectations at this price point.

Comparison of Scout turntables