Turntables / source / USA

VPI Industries

VPI Industries makes turntables and tonearms in New Jersey. Its record players are represented in a venue with several analogue playback paths.

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Design & approach

Sheila and Harry Weisfeld founded VPI in 1978. The company’s account follows its development from record-care equipment into turntables, with an emphasis on manufacture and continuing product development. A VPI deck’s arm and cartridge remain distinct choices in the venue’s complete analogue chain.

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Venue equipment records, including their original model uncertainties. Shared-system entries retain the full recorded context.

SuperScoutmaster with JMW Memorial arm
Turntables
VPI Super Scoutmaster with JMW Memorial unipivot arm. New Jersey belt-drive, inverted bearing, easy arm-wand swaps. @vpiindustries.
Bar Shiru

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Oakland / United States

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Equipment in use

Bar Shiru lists VPI in its source / playback setup. The equipment details below reflect the venue record.

Turntables: SME20 with Series iv vi arm; SuperScoutmaster with JMW Memorial arm (SME / VPI)

Inside the system

Bar Shiru’s system combines several speaker types with valve and solid-state amplification rather than imposing one chain on every listening position. The custom Isonoe mixer provides the control point for the analogue programme, with SME and VPI sources and Line Magnetic phono stages upstream.

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