VPI Scout- motor pops in speakers when turned off

To be candid I am somewhat shocked by this thread.
02-07-09: Ferrari

Shocked? By VPI's response? Or shocked by the responses from others that have experienced the same problem?

First off I would agree with with VPI's supposed response to Mekong56. Could very well be..... "system dependent" .....

Shocked by VPI response. I have never had such a response from VPI. I have had same problem over the years with Rega, Oracle and a few others. This is a dirt simple fix if the problem relates to the turntable.

Ferrari,
You forget the age we live in.

Come Monday morning I suggest you contact VPI and ask them if they recommend that you, Joe public, install a capacitor across the contact switch of their VPI TT.

JMHO, I would think it could be a liability issue for VPI telling you, Joe public, to do so.....

If the solution is as inexpensive as Ralph suggests (and he's usually spot on) and if the problem is pervasive and not isolated, perhaps VPI should authorize their dealers to make the modification reimbursing them accordingly.

Easy.

Jea48 That info came directly from Harry at VPI during a phone call to him sometime ago. I did exactly what he said to do and that solved the problem, Took about 40 minutes of time from start to finsih. Most of that in dissasemby and reassemble the turntable. The part was .75 cents.

This is not problematic with all systems, in mine it was and a phone call to Harry solved the problem.

By the way VPI now aswers the phone Tuesday through Thursday.

If you can follow instructions have some knowledge of a soldering iron and have the cap that atamsphere has listed in this thread your set. Also RS sells this cap as well, so you don't need to outsource the part from some esoteric parts catalog.