The bottom platter is driven by a precision-machined idler wheel with a rubber O-ring at its periphery that idler is belt-driven by two 300rpm, 24-pole, AC synchronous motors, the pulleys of which are claimed to be machined to an accuracy of ☐.0005". The Avenger Reference has two platters, one atop the other, both 12.42" in diameter and made of 6061 aluminum, machined to an accuracy of ☐.001". Those who object to cantilevered armboards will have to shop elsewhere. Because both the tonearm's height and pivot-to-spindle distance can be adjusted, these platforms can accommodate most pivoted tonearms made today, and tangential trackers. VPI supplies for their tonearms massive clamp-on armboards of 5/8"-thick 6061 aluminum. The three corner posts also serve as mounting platforms for the armboards. This portion of the turntable has a compact footprint of 23" wide by 20" deep, though the armboards extend past both of those dimensions the Avenger Reference's overall dimensions are 27" wide by 13" high by 23" deep.Ĭhunky knurled knobs just below the chassis permit convenient leveling of the plinth. Three chassis outriggers have massive steel corner posts that lock down the chassis and, via machined-aluminum cones resting in Delrin/ball bearing isolation bases, support the heavy (85lb) structure. The Avenger's chassis comprises two layers of acrylic bonded to and sandwiching a central layer of aluminum, with damping material applied between the layers.
Vpi avenger review series#
With its Avenger series of turntables, VPI (footnote 1) has moved toward my way of thinking: minimal plinths (where possible), and massive metal platters. If so, you haven't read all of my VPI reviews, which haven't always been positive. Perhaps you're thinking that, by this point, I'm too close to the VPI-Weisfeld family to fairly review their products. For better or worse, VPI has always been a family-owned business thanks to the fact that current CEO Mat Weisfeld, son of founder Harry Weisfeld, turned from teaching to turntable making, it will probably continue to be one.
I was there, too, for the personal tragedies and the blessingsthe funerals, the bar mitzvahs, the weddings. I've been reviewing and owning VPI products since 1986. Despite analog playback's ups and downs (pun time), VPI has managed not only to survive but to prosper and grow, thanks to a smart product mix that includes high-value, wet-wash/vacuum-dry record-cleaning machines that perhaps took up the revenue slack when, in the mid-1990s, interest in new turntables dippedbut the vinyl faithful still had millions of dirty records to keep clean. Turntable manufacturer VPI Industries is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
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