LAB REPORT VPI CLASSIC/JMW MEMORIAL (£2695)

摘要

This heavyweight homage to VPI's 30th Anniversary offers a similar set of measurements, particularly in respect of speed stability, to its Scout II turntable [HFN Nov '09]. Both decks use a 600rpm synchronous motor and inverted bearing but while the Scout II has an acrylic platter, the Classic 1 features one machined from alloy and stainless steel. The Classic 1 offers a similar peak-wtd 0.07% wow and flutter while the 'shape' of the spectrum [Graph 1, below] with its discrete ±4Hz wow and ±25Hz flutter is highly reminiscent. Where the Classic's 18lb alloy platter offers some advantage over the acrylic Scout II is in its clear reduction in 100Hz noise, evident from the absence of ±100Hz sidebands that popped-up on the Scout's W&F and rumble spectra. Bearing rumble is fractionally higher at -70.6dB via the Classic thanks to a specific 90Hz mode, although, and more importantly, very low frequency noise in the 0-20Hz region is much reduced.