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VPI HW-40 Turntable

VPI HW-40 Turntable

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VPI HW-40 Turntable
VPI HW-40 Turntable
VPI HW-40 Turntable
VPI HW-40 Turntable
VPI HW-40 Turntable
VPI HW-40 Turntable

VPI

Country of origin: USA

VPI HW-40 Turntable
$42,490.00

Includes GST. 🚚 Free shipping on orders over $100 Australia wide at checkout.

Craftsmanship with modern engineering, featuring a 25-pound acrylic platter and inverted main bearing for ultra-stable rotation. Its dynamically balanced, fluid-damped tonearm ensures precise cartridge alignment and low-friction tracking. Built for quiet operation and rhythmic coherence, it delivers rich tonal texture, deep soundstaging, and engaging analog realism.

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Description

HW-40

40th Anniversary Edition

Designing VPI's Next Generation Direct Drive Motor Technology

Harry Weisfeld's 2012 CLASSIC DIRECT direct drive turntable was an outstanding technical achievement, earning Stereophile Magazine's Class A+ rating. This award-winning table was loosely based on the VPI Classic Series table technology and included a thick aluminum plinth and armboard and an inverted platter bearing riding on a PEEK thrust disc. Combined with a cutting-edge BLDC direct drive motor, the CLASSIC DIRECT was created. The Classic Direct provided a stable, solid foundation for the music, allowing the listener to hear deeply into the recorded grooves to the treasures buried with-in!

Designing a new turntable to celebrate VPI's 40th anniversary provided VPI an opportunity to update the direct drive motor technology to incorporate advances in motion control and materials technologies.

Features

  • Fatboy Anniversary Tonearm

  • Nordost Reference Wire

  • Direct Drive Motor

  • New VTA Base on the Fly

  • Dustcover Included

  • Internal Circuitry and Power

  • Made in the USA

  • 5 Year Warranty

Tech Specs

Chassis Composition: Aluminum and Solid Black Walnut (Stained)

Platter Type & Size: 12" Aluminum Platter, 25 lbs.

Tonearm Included: JMW-12 Fatboy Gimbal

Motor Type: Direct Drive

Motor Torque: 2.68 Nm/sec

Star/Stop Time: 1 Second

Speed Monitoring: 2,500 pulses/revolution

Footprint: 21 3/4" x 16 3/4"

Dimensions: 22" x 17" x 10"

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Why Choose VPI

VPI Industries is one of America’s most respected analogue manufacturers, producing handcrafted turntables in New Jersey for more than four decades. Founded by Harry Weisfeld and now continued by the Weisfeld family, VPI has developed a loyal following worldwide through its focus on precision engineering, upgradeability, and extracting maximum musical engagement from vinyl playback.

What makes VPI particularly interesting is the way the brand combines traditional high-mass turntable engineering with genuinely innovative manufacturing techniques and tonearm design. VPI turntables are built around substantial platter systems, carefully controlled resonance management, and uniquely engineered tonearms designed to maximise cartridge performance and musical realism. The result is a presentation that feels large-scale, dynamic, and highly immersive while still preserving excellent transparency and tonal balance.

At HeyNow Hi-Fi, the Scout and Prime series stand out as particularly compelling models within the VPI range. They deliver much of the brand’s core analogue character and engineering philosophy while remaining relatively approachable within serious high-end vinyl playback. There is a sense of authority and physicality to VPI turntables that makes records sound expansive, energetic, and deeply engaging, particularly within carefully matched analogue systems.

Signature Design and Sound

Manufactured in the USA, VPI turntables incorporate several distinctive engineering approaches that help separate the brand from more conventional analogue designs. Their substantial platter assemblies, precision bearing systems, and rigid plinth structures are engineered to improve rotational stability and minimise unwanted resonance throughout the playback system.

One of the most unique aspects of modern VPI turntables is the company’s advanced 3D-printed tonearm technology. Developed to achieve complex internal structures and resonance control characteristics that are difficult to manufacture using traditional methods, the 3D-printed arms allow VPI to carefully manage energy transfer, reduce unwanted coloration, and improve cartridge tracking behaviour. The result is a tonearm that feels highly resolved, mechanically quiet, and exceptionally capable of revealing low-level musical information.

Sonically, VPI turntables are known for their scale, dynamics, and highly involving presentation. The sound feels powerful and spacious, with strong bass authority, impressive image size, and excellent separation between instruments and vocals. At the same time, VPI tables retain refinement and openness, allowing recordings to sound vivid and highly lifelike without becoming overly analytical or clinical.

VPI Product Range

The VPI range available through HeyNow Hi-Fi focuses primarily on the highly regarded Scout and Prime series turntables. These models showcase many of the brand’s most successful engineering concepts, including high-mass platter systems, precision motor assemblies, and advanced tonearm technologies capable of supporting high-performance moving coil and moving magnet cartridges.

The Scout series offers an excellent entry point into serious high-end analogue playback, delivering impressive scale, stability, and upgrade potential. Moving further into the Prime series introduces greater refinement, lower noise floors, and increasingly sophisticated isolation and tonearm technologies that allow systems to extract significantly more realism and musical detail from vinyl records.

VPI remains a highly interesting option for analogue enthusiasts seeking turntables that combine innovative engineering, substantial construction quality, and a bold, immersive sound character. At HeyNow Hi-Fi, Geoff and his analogue setup team provide careful cartridge installation, tonearm calibration, and analogue system optimisation to ensure VPI turntables perform at their full potential within each customer’s vinyl playback system.

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