Clearaudio High Precision Turntable  Bubble Level

High precision level gauge in stainless steel housing, calibrated stainless steel

Owners of Clearaudio  Master Reference turntables will recognise this high quality bubble level. 

If you don't own a Master Reference fear not, Clearaudio have now made this bubble level available to the rest of us! Available in a precisely machined stainless steel base for ultimate accuracy.

When all your equipment is level, vibration is reduced and performance enhanced.

If your turntable platter is not perfectly level it will affect the way the stylus sits in the groove, causing channel imbalance and possibly uneven wear to both the record and the stylus.
We start from the proposition that to work properly a turntable must be level. This sounds obvious but by level I mean ABSOLUTELY level. I suppose it's evident that a sloping record surface will make the stylus tend to try to run down the slope, causing it to press harder on one groove wall than the other. But if a turntable is out of level there are other problems.

Suspended turntables are designed so their suspensions work in the vertical plane to give "pistonic" motion usually tuned well below audio frequency. If the table is out of true the "pistonic" motion picks up all sorts of parasitic motions, wobbling all over the place sometimes in the audible range (>20hz) and at the frequency of record warps. This is why quality suspended tables take so long to set up - to get the bounce spot on - if the turntable isn't level the bounce will NEVER be right.   

One of the critical components for a turntable is the main bearing which must offer minimal friction and hold the platter fixed in all planes except rotation - all this with minimal play and as little vibration as possible. All such bearings are designed to work with the turntable level with all forces acting vertically downwards. Tilt the table and you add a horizontal force which will compromise performance and over the long term cause the bearing to wear unevenly, non-suspended turnables often have very heavy platters which exacerbates the problem.

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