"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

The Super Scoutmaster Signature is a direct development of both the state of the art VPI TNT HR-X and the Scout entry level turntable.

The standard Scout uses an all acrylic platter, this one uses a composite platter manufactured from two slabs of acrylic, sandwiching a steel plate. The disparate resonance frequencies of the two materials are very different , and the slabs of acrylic act as an excellent damping material for any potential resonance, whilst the steel enhances torsional stiffness preventing the chassis from distorting or twisting.

The bearing is the same design as used throughout the VPI range., however the main bearing housing has been lengthened to accommodate the new, thicker platter first seen on the TNT HR-X turntable. This bearing is very much at the heart of the Scout's design, using a Teflon thrust plate running on a 60 case hardened steel shaft, this bearing is one of the reasons why the Scout is so incredibly quiet and capable of pulling details out of the vinyl which lesser decks overlook.

Harry Weisfeld has known for a long time that both the quality of the power supply and the drive system are critical to the overall performance of the playback system, so for this turntable the drive system from the awesome HR-X, with a pair of precision US manufactured 300 rpm motors driving a centrally mounted flywheel, with the motors running in opposition to each other to cancel out vibrations, and the motors are driven by the sophisticated Synchronous Drive System (SDS), which allows the user to tune the output for both voltage and frequency. The plinth uses a similar construction to the Scout Master, with a pair of acrylic slabs sandwiching a steel core to ensure this plinth cannot support resonance. The platter is again the acrylic unit from the HR-X with periphery ring.

Finally the turntable ships with a JMW 10.5 Memorial tonearm, an arm critically acclaimed Worldwide for it's ease of setup, outstanding design and stunning sound quality. Now, exclusively for the Super Scoutmaster Signature, VPI has collaborated with cable experts, Nordost, to produce this new Signature arm which is wired with Nordost Valhalla Micro Monofilament tonearm cable. This arm cable has been specially designed for this arm. Valhalla Micro monofilament technology cable uses a 99.99999% OFC copper wire, sheathed with a 78 micron layer of Silver, and this is then wrapped with a spiral of Teflon. The dielectric is extruded FEP, which is then sealed over the cable. The resulting cable has less than 20% of the conductor in contact with the dielectric, resulting in a cable which is extraordinarily transparent, detailed and fast. By using this unique cable with the JMW Memorial tonearms stunning engineering and the outstanding performance of the VPI Super Scoutmaster, a vinyl playback system is created which truly challenges the very best available.