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VPI Forever Model One Turntable
VPI Forever Model One Turntable
VPI Forever Model One Turntable
VPI Forever Model One Turntable
VPI Forever Model One Turntable
VPI Forever Model One Turntable
VPI Forever Model One Turntable

VPI

Country of origin: USA

VPI Forever Model One Turntable
$12,490.00

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

Combines a precision-machined aluminum platter with a low-resonance composite plinth for stable playback. A compact unipivot tonearm ensures accurate tracking with minimal coloration. Designed for simple setup and musical engagement, it delivers quiet backgrounds, rhythm, and vivid analog realism.

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VPI Forever - Model One

The VPI Forever Series ushers in a new era of performance and modularity, paying tribute to over 45 years of VPI heritage. This new series embodies VPI’s commitment to innovation, offering turntables that can evolve with the user. The Model One, the first release in this series, features a fully modular and upgradeable system, blending VPI’s engineering excellence with future-proof design.

10-Year Warranty

The VPI Forever Series is a testament to our confidence in the durability and longevity of our products. The 10-year warranty reflects VPI’s commitment to quality and our readiness to service and upgrade our turntables over time. With this extended warranty, customers can trust in their investment, knowing that their turntable is built to last.

VPI Forever Arm

  • Type: 10-inch, S-shaped, statically balanced tonearm

  • Effective length: 255 mm

  • Mounting distance: 240 mm

  • Effective mass: 10.4 g

  • Overhang: 15 mm

  • Pickup weight: 5–15 g

  • Height adjustment: 40–65 mm

  • Anti-skating: Yes

  • Headshell: Solid aluminum

  • Offset angle: 21 degrees

  • Internal wiring: 69 VPI Copper wire

3-Point Floating Suspension (3D Isolation)

The Model One introduces a new 3-Point Floating Suspension system designed for superior isolation from external vibrations. This advanced 3D isolation system stabilizes the turntable, minimizes motor noise, and reduces both external and internal vibrations. Key highlights include:

  • Isolated suspension using high-tech polymer, fully adjustable for leveling.

  • Enhances sound quality by maintaining stability and isolating the platter and tonearm from any motor noise interference.

  • Easy to replace both Motor and Platter Module and Tonearm Module.

Available Upgrades:

  • Periphery Ring Clamp - Improves record warp reduction and the shelf life of your cartridge.

  • Analog Drive System (ADS) - Improves accuracy and speed adjustment.

  • Fatboy Tonearm - Gimbal or Unpivot

  • Modular Two

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Tech Specs
Chassis Composition Wood Skirt with Machined Aluminum Top Plate
Platter Type & Size 12" Aluminum, 20 lbs
Tonearm Included VPI S-Tonearm
Motor RPM 300 RPM
Motor Pulley Accuracy ±0.0005"
Wow and Flutter 0.05%
Speed Accuracy 0.05%
Rumble 80 dB Down
Footprint 19 ½" x 13 ¾"
Overall Size 21 ⅜" x 15 ¾"
Total Weight 40 lbs
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Warranty Information

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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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