Seen at CES: Victrola Soundstage Soundbase
Leave it to Victrola to come up with an all-in-one entry-level offering for budding, budget-minded vinyl lovers — i.e., just the kind of eager, LP-loving newbies whom we are always happy to welcome into the warm analog embrace of the audiophile fold. Earlier today at CES 2026, the company announced the Victrola Soundstage, a soundbase that is said to have been designed to deliver, quote, “high-fidelity performance for vinyl listeners from a compact, space-efficient design.”
Soundstage purports to be able to deliver “rich, engaging sound” from a single speaker that is designed to “integrate naturally” beneath a turntable. One of the unit’s core engineering goals is to isolate vibration without compromising sound quality, allowing the system to deliver low-end performance and wide stereo imaging without disturbing the turntable. Victrola designed Soundstage as a fully integrated system, wherein cabinet architecture, driver placement, and vibration control are said to have been “carefully tuned to work together to protect playback integrity while maximizing sound quality.”
“Victrola has been building all-in-one listening systems for more than a century, and Soundstage is a natural evolution of that legacy," said Scott Hagen, CEO of Victrola, in an official press statement. “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. So, 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.”
To achieve the aforementioned balance Victrola intended with Soundstage, the unit is said to offer two core performance benefits through a carefully coordinated driver and enclosure design. The first benefit is deep bass without vibrations, thanks to the down-firing Symmetric Drive Woofer (a.k.a. SDW) that features dual diaphragm technology to ensure powerful, accurate bass while canceling vibrations and keeping the turntable steady for smooth, uninterrupted vinyl performance.
The other key goal is immersive stereo sound by way of Balanced Mode Radiator (a.k.a. BMR) technology, which itself is said to deliver exceptionally wide, even dispersion to create a spacious, natural stereo image that stays clear and detailed anywhere in the room. Victrola pointed out that this approach, via their driver technology, is intended to solve one of vinyl’s most persistent challenges: resonance.
Typically, speakers vibrate, and when placed near a turntable they cause the stylus to move and create a feedback loop that introduces distortion and can harm sensitive turntable components during playback. Soundstage is said to manage this by directing the most harmful low frequencies through the down-firing SDW (the woofer) and rear-facing ports, while using a low crossover point with the front-facing BMRs (the radiators) to keep critical midrange and high frequencies projected forward for clarity, detail, and accurate stereo imaging.
Victrola added that, while the Soundstage has been designed to complement and pair seamlessly with the company’s own Wave and Automatic turntables, the unit also works “effortlessly” with a wide range of other turntables and audio sources.
Connectivity options include 3.5mm AUX, RCA, USB-C, and Bluetooth. The Soundstage boasts dimensions of 16.9 x 3.5 x 15.1in (w/h/d), and it is available in both walnut and black finishes. The company’s earlier noted Wave table is shown directly above atop a Soundstage unit with the walnut finish, while their Automatic table can be seen atop a Soundstage with the black finish below.
For those attending CES 2026, Victrola also told us that the Soundstage is being demonstrated in the Venetian, Suite 29-321.
Finally, the SRP for the Victrola Soundstage soundbase is $349.99, and its availability is projected to be in the summer of 2026.
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From - Analog Gear News
By -Mike Mettler