Looking at the sturdy base – that looks more like a workbench than a turntable chassis – I noticed the aluminium plate that ran through the centre of two layers of vinyl-wrapped MDF. Tipping the scales at 36.75kg, the Prime Signature is a mass-based design and no mistake. ![]() It’s a measure of the care afforded to the platter but it’s also partly because I think VPI is using old original ‘Prime’ boxes during shipping and because the platter (amongst other items) is now thicker than their earlier Prime counterparts, the platter won’t fit in the one box anymore.Īpart from that, I noticed the weight. Well, I say box because my first of two immediate impressions were not only that the Signature arrives in two boxes but that VPI has decided to put the aluminium platter in one of them, on its own. The two initial impressions I had of the Prime Signature turntable didn’t reflect in any way its sonic abilities and both were lodged even before I opened the box. ![]() Moving beyond the original Prime design, Paul Rigby reviews the sturdy Prime Signature turntable from VPI
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