VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER!

As the owner of a Teres table and Verus motor for over 15 years reading about this VPI and the reaction to it is almost comical. Chris Brady developed a direct drive way back then, and was a lot more open with it leaving little doubt the vast majority of the cost went straight into the hardware. Compared to this VPI where it seems the vast majority of the cost went into the candy apple red paint. I bet you $500 the bearing in my Teres is at least as good.

Then there's the arm. I hear VPI is already working on a 14. Feet, that is.

I mean this thing is a joke. Metal and acrylic, same crap they been using for decades. Different shape, new color, dudes lap it up. That arm board- is it anything other than a hunk of aluminum? I mean okay, maybe it is. I don't know. Honestly just looking at it, knowing what I know about turntables, and VPI, my bet is aluminum. Not that you can't build a really good table with acrylic and aluminum. You can. For this kind of money though, if that's what VPI did, then it goes beyond rip off and shows just how little respect they have for their customers.

Only thing more hilarious, the idea of "findings" as if any of this has anything to do with technology. Hello? See above. 15 years ago. Sheesh. "Findings?" Yeah. As in, wanted to find out how many suckers there are. And that's how many they will build.

Another brilliant design from VPI.

Once again VPI has taken a possibly good motor and hopefully decent bearing, stuck something flat and black and round on it, and tarted it up with their iconic black acrylic and stainless steel layering they continue to call state of the art engineering, even after having made the same damn thing for going on like 30 years now.

If they can sell it then VPI truly is a marketing juggernaut. Like Rolex, maker of the world's finest $800 dive watch, which they somehow manage to sell for $8k, VPI is now the maker of the world's finest $10k turntable, which the question now is how many can they sell for $120k?

Well let's see... take the number with more money than you know what, multiply by the number of them who couldn't mount a cartridge to save their life, times the number eager to pay a couple grand to someone who can perform this simple task..... carry the one,.... wow, its a pretty big number!

Honestly hard to say which is worse- VPI shamelessly shilling the same old black and stainless schtick, or audiophiles lazily lapping it up.