Fremer/SSM w/Rim Drive

I am also puzzled by VPIs new tables. The Classic has a fixed motor, I thought having an isolated motor was better and the reason they discontinued the HW-19. It is suppose to be better isolated than the other tables but I am not sure how. Apparently it is much easier to bring out new tables than to keep their dealers informed or update their web site. I am one of their dealers and I have no idea of the relative merits of the Scout 2, the Classic or the Scoutmaster. I suppose I could just order all of them but I am a small dealer with limited space and money.

On the other hand, I have run into many people who praise highly equipment that they neither own nor have heard. In one case I had my subwoofers attacked by someone who had never heard them but who" could tell from the spec sheet" what they sounded like. If you do not own, have owned, or listen often to a component your advice is essentially worthless. I now try to confine my answers to things I use or have used. I am a VPI dealer but I do not sell new equipment on audiogon, nor do I think that they are the only good tables made. I sell them because they are good, they are not good because I sell them. There are many other good turntables out there and it is unnecessary for users of any of them to disparage other good ones. I have been around long enough to know that there are many roads to sonic bliss and the audio fundamentalists who suggest that theirs is the only way are the blight of these forums.