Angsty
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I love my Traveler, too. It’s the PLX-1000 that has to watch its back.
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Angsty
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The whole damn Classic is about 50 lbs. It’s a beast and that gives me pause compared to how relatively svelte the Traveler is. Hence the name.
HayesWeighsIn
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I've had this same thought. Like, will my cabinet support one of these??? Haha
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Ozzy voice “ohhhh lawddd yea!!!”
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VPI posted what appears to be a Cliffwood with a JMW-9 arm and potentially a Scout platter? I’ve said no to unipivot, but the idea that my deck could potentially be upgraded to this config……
Angsty
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VPI is always playing around with hybrid configs. I noted the change in feet as well as the Prime Scout unipivot.
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HayesWeighsIn
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This would be beyond the Cliffwood Plus. Cliffwood Plus has the Player gimbal arm and a Scout platter, and the one on IG has a JMW-9 unipivot and as @Angsty astutely pointed out, feet upgrade as well.Is that this, a Cliffwood Plus?
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They’re such fascinatingly simple builds to me. For example, the Classic has the same motor and pulley as the Cliffwood! Obviously everything else is different, but I always find it interesting how close in design everything is.
Music Direct, Upscale and few other US places have it listed for sale. I know that doesn’t help you per se but it does seem to exist out there in the wider world.
HayesWeighsIn
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I believe the “signature” portion was just when they were starting to 3D print the unipivot arms, if I’m not mistaken.
Yeah it's strange that I can't find it listed in Canada anywhere. Can find every other model including the crazy $120,000 ones but no Classic Signature....
Distributors can make decisions sometimes to only import things that they think will fit a sales hole in their market at its price point. The Canadian distributor may just have decided it wasn’t a viable seller and not bothered. It only seems to be widely available in the home market, the couple of places I know in Europe that sell VPI don’t carry it either.
And actually saying that if you really did want it I doubt they couldn’t do a one off import. The Musical Fidelity distributor in Ireland didn’t carry the streamer I wanted but when I enquired they agreed to do a one off order and I got it at list.
Oh for sure, it'll just be nearly impossible to get a decent price on it if I have to do a special order. Nearly everything VPI related has been on sale throughout December so I suspect they may be doing new hardware releases next year, just guessing but I'm hoping maybe they announce something Classic related.
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Angsty
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After spending an unexpected pile this past week on other projects before Christmas shopping, the opportunity for a Classic seems to be slipping away.
Too bad; it seemed like it would have been a fun adventure. It’ll have to wait until later.
I'm aiming for spring if I can find a Signature Classic somewhere up here.
HayesWeighsIn
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I hear that. Had a couple small upgrades I wanted to do, and the Christmas shopping has just totally pushed that back for a bit. Like everything else, gosh has it gotten expensive.
HayesWeighsIn
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I know I don’t have to tell you this, but just be extra sure whichever one you order comes with the arm you want! Presumably the new JMW-10 gimbal, yeah? It gets a little confusing.