Victrola Debuts Soundstage Under Turntable Speaker, Expanding Its Vinyl-Focused Home Audio Line

Victrola has built its modern reputation on doing vinyl the smart way—turntables that look right, sound competent, and don’t demand an engineering degree to enjoy. Models like the Sapphire, Carbon, and Onyx helped reposition the brand from nostalgia act to legitimate player in the entry-to-mid-level vinyl space. For 2026, however, Victrola is widening the aperture with the Soundstage, a powered soundbase designed to sit directly under a turntable and eliminate the usual mess of external speakers, amplifiers, and boxes that scare off a lot of would-be vinyl listeners.

The timing is not accidental. The Soundstage arrives just as products like the Andover Audio SpinPlay—one of our Editors’ Choice 2025 winners for vinyl playback—have proven there’s real demand for compact, vinyl-first speaker systems that don’t treat sound quality as an afterthought.

Victrola’s pitch is simple and refreshingly honest: better bass, cleaner detail, and modern wired and wireless connectivity—including Bluetooth and Auracast—in a single chassis that works just as easily with a turntable as it does with a TV, computer, or secondary system elsewhere in the house.

As vinyl listening continues to grow beyond dedicated listening rooms and into offices, apartments, and shared living spaces, Soundstage is Victrola betting that performance and simplicity no longer have to be mutually exclusive.

Scott Hagen, CEO, Victrola:
“Victrola has been building all-in-one listening systems for more than a century, and Soundstage is a natural evolution of that legacy. While vinyl records continue to resonate with a new and younger generation of enthusiastic listeners, not all of them want a big, complex hi-fi system. In some respects, Soundstage is a return to form for us—it takes our DNA in making all-in-one consoles and modernizes it for the next generation. The result is a solution that effortlessly fills a room with great-sounding music, sits neatly under a turntable, plays music from a variety of other sources, and can even stream records throughout the house.”

A Purpose-Built Foundation for Modern Vinyl Playback

The Soundstage is engineered to control vibration without choking the life out of the music—no small feat for a speaker system designed to live directly beneath a turntable. By isolating mechanical energy while preserving low-frequency authority and stereo scale, Soundstage delivers punchy bass and wide imaging without feeding unwanted vibration back into the record player above it.

This is a fully integrated design, where cabinet architecture, driver placement, and vibration management are tuned as a single system rather than treated as separate problems. The goal is simple but critical: protect playback integrity while extracting the most performance possible from a compact, all-in-one enclosure. Victrola achieves this balance through two core performance elements built into the Soundstage’s driver and enclosure design.

The down-firing Symmetric Drive Woofer (SDW) uses a dual-diaphragm configuration to produce strong, controlled low-frequency output while actively canceling mechanical vibration. The result is bass that has real weight and extension, without destabilizing the turntable or compromising tracking—exactly what a vinyl-first system needs.

Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) technology provides wide, even dispersion that extends well beyond the physical footprint of the cabinet. This allows Soundstage to create a spacious, natural stereo image that remains coherent and detailed across the room, not just in a narrow sweet spot—an important consideration for real-world living spaces, offices, and secondary systems.

Pro Tip: Symmetric Drive Woofer and Balanced Mode Radiators Explained

This combination of cabinet design and driver technology tackles one of vinyl playback’s oldest and most annoying problems: resonance. Conventional speakers vibrate, and when they’re placed close to a turntable, that energy can travel straight back into the plinth and stylus. The result is a feedback loop that muddies the sound, adds distortion, and in worst cases can stress delicate turntable components during playback.

Soundstage addresses this at the source. Low-frequency energy—the main culprit behind resonance—is handled by the down-firing Symmetric Drive Woofer (SDW) and rear-facing ports, directing bass away from the turntable and into the room. At the same time, a low crossover point hands off midrange and high frequencies to the front-facing Balanced Mode Radiators (BMRs), keeping vocals, instruments, and spatial cues projected forward with clarity and stable stereo imaging. It’s a pragmatic, physics-based solution that lets vinyl sound full and engaging without letting vibration sabotage the playback.

A Modular Approach to Modern Vinyl Systems

Soundstage reflects Victrola’s broader modular philosophy toward home listening, giving users the flexibility to build a system that fits their space, budget, and listening habits without locking them into a closed ecosystem. It’s designed to pair cleanly with Victrola’s Wave ($499) and Automatic ($279) turntables, but it isn’t proprietary or precious about it—Soundstage works just as comfortably with a wide range of third-party turntables and external audio sources.

Whether it’s supporting an entry-level record player in a home office or anchoring a more premium turntable in a primary listening space, Soundstage offers a flexible, future-ready path to better sound. The idea is simple: start with what you have, upgrade when you want, and avoid rebuilding the entire system every time your listening priorities evolve.

Soundstage Highlights

Below is a concise overview of the Soundstage’s core features, with the emphasis where it belongs—on practicality, performance, and real-world use rather than spec-sheet gymnastics.

• Turntable-ready by design, engineered to pair seamlessly with Victrola’s Wave and Automatic turntables, while remaining fully compatible with a wide range of third-party record players.
• Vibration-isolated architecture that protects playback integrity and minimizes resonance when placed directly beneath a turntable.
• Balanced Mode Radiators (BMRs) deliver wide, even dispersion for immersive stereo sound that extends beyond the cabinet’s footprint.
• Symmetric Drive Woofer (SDW) provides deep, controlled bass while actively canceling vibrations that could interfere with vinyl playback.
• Auracast™ multi-speaker streaming enables wireless audio broadcasting or receiving with compatible speakers and devices throughout the home.
• Versatile wired and wireless connectivity, including 3.5 mm AUX, RCA, USB-C, and Bluetooth, allowing Soundstage to integrate easily with multiple sources.
• Expandable use beyond vinyl, functioning as a monitor stand, TV speaker, or standalone wireless speaker when a turntable isn’t in play.
• Furniture-friendly industrial design, offered in Walnut and Black finishes that blend naturally into modern living spaces rather than screaming “audio gear.”

Comparison

The Bottom Line 

The Victrola Soundstage (model VPS-2100) is a smart, well-timed extension of Victrola’s turntable lineup, offering a compact amplifier-and-speaker solution that fits neatly under a record player without turning a shelf or desk into an audio obstacle course. It delivers genuinely room-filling sound from its onboard amplification, wide-dispersion BMR drivers, and added low-end support from the SDW woofer, while also covering its bases with flexible connectivity—optical, USB, and Bluetooth in/out—for TV, computer, and wireless playback duties beyond vinyl.

That said, Soundstage isn’t arriving in a vacuum. Andover Audio has been in this lane for years with the SpinBase and the new SpinPlay; one of our Editors’ Choice 2025 winners—and its higher-end One Series components, both of which set a high bar for vibration control and musical coherence in all-in-one designs. Victrola’s advantage is approachability: Soundstage is clearly aimed at listeners who want better sound, modern connectivity, and a cleaner setup without stepping into more expensive, audiophile-adjacent territory.

It doesn’t reinvent the category—but it reinforces the idea that vinyl-friendly, space-efficient systems are no longer niche, and that’s good news for anyone who wants simplicity without surrendering sound quality.  

Pricing & Availability

The Victrola Soundstage is priced at $349.99 and will be available in Summer 2026. 

In the meantime, Victrola is also adding a Walnut color option for the previously released Victrola Wave Turntable ($499 at Crutchfield or Amazon) and Tempo Bookshelf Speakers ($249 at Crutchfield or Amazon).

Victrola Wave Turntable (VPT-1520) 

• Cartridge: Ortofon OM 5E (Available for the Walnut finish only Wave) 
• Tonearm: Aluminum with removable headshell 
• Wireless Outputs: Bluetooth 5.4, aptX™ Adaptive, aptX™ HD, Auracast Broadcast Audio 
• Wired Output: RCA output with switchable phono preamp 
• Construction: Low-resonance MDF plinth, die-cast aluminum platter 
• More:  Adjustable counterweight, speed selection, removable dust cover 
• Price: $499 (Walnut version coming soon to Amazon)

Victrola Tempo Powered Bookshelf Speakers (VPS-400)

• Wireless Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.4, Auracast Broadcast Audio 
• Inputs: RCA, 3.5 mm AUX, Optical, USB-C 
• Outputs: Subwoofer output with selectable bass filter 
• Controls: Front-facing illuminated volume and source control 
• Price: $249 per pair (Walnut version coming soon to Amazon)

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