BlueNote Bellavista Owners manual

Villa®

Bellavista

ITALIAN PRESTIGE RIGID TURNTABLE

Owner’s Manual

MANUFACTURED IN ITALY

TEL.[phone] FAX.[phone]

Bellavista Italian Prestige Rigid Turntable

Table Of Contents

- Congratulations & Introduction 3

- Box Content 4

- Construction Features 4

- Set-up Instructions 5

- Positioning 6

- Operating the Bellavista 6

- Specifications 6

- Warranty, Customer Service & Warnings 7

- Troubleshooting 8

- Troubleshooting 9

- F.A.Q. Adjustment 10

VERY IMPORTANT: Please read the following instructions carefully before installing your

Bluenote Villa® Turntable

Bellavista Italian Prestige Rigid Turntable

Congratulations

Thank you for having purchased a Villa® product.

Introduction

With Villa® products you enter a new dimension. Villa® is
the new way of listening to music. Villa® is a range of products of
prestigious and sophisticated Italian design featuring unique and

innovative technical and aesthetic characteristics. The materials used
for the Villa® turntables are of the highest quality and they are all
assembled and tested by hand, one by one. No photos or technical
descriptions can adequately convey the quality of Villa®

turntables or the pride of owning one.
The turntable boards are made entirely from skillfully crafted sheets of black polished acrylic. The platter itself is in extruded
acrylic “tuned” by an amazing 9 counterweights in gold plated brass. The pivots and bearing are made in alumi num brass
and de -coupled stainless steel with Teflon®. All the applied details are in 6082 aluminum alloy aluminum or gold plated
brass and all are turned from solid blocks. The tailor-made belt is manufactured from a special low-stretch (35/40%) resin
which allows for maintaining the typical advantages of turntables with belt drives but also allows for adding characteristics

of drive speed and power that cannot be reached with conventional turntables. The synchronous motor is made to 24 pole
specifications for further enhancing the performance.
In a word, the Villa® range sets a new standard of reference in the turntable category.

Congratulations & Introduction 3

Bellavista Italian Prestige Rigid Turntable

Contents of Packaging

- 1 BLACK POLISHED TURNTABLE BOARD IN ACRYLIC COMPLETED WITH AN AC SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR, PLATTER

BRONZE BEARING AND ANODIZED ALUMINIUM TONEARM COLLAR (STANDARD REGA).

- 1 CARBON STEEL TEMPERED POLISHED SPINDLE SPLIT IN 2 PARTS TO CLAMP THE TURNTABLE PLATTER.

- 1 PLATTER IN BLACK SATIN EXTRUDED POLYVINYL WITH 9 GOLD PLATED WEIGHTS

- 1 70 Shore ELASTICITY DRIVE BELT

- 1 RECORD ANODIZED ALUMINIUM CLAMP

- 1 OIL VESSEL FOR PLATTER SPINDLE

- INSTRUCTION BOOK AND WARRANTY CERTIFICATE

Construction features

This section describes the special features of the BELLAVISTA turntable, the construction features, the reasons for the technical choices and
the originality of the design.

- BELLAVISTA is rigid turntable that, like all the turntables of the Bluenote-Villa line, uses a board made in black high-density polished

acrylic obtained via “polymeric melting”.

- The black board has 3 machine worked aluminium height-adjustable feet with a semi-conical shape with central grooving for ensuring

greater insensitivity to vibrations. Each foot has a recessed spike may be used to couple rigidly the turntable on its shelf.

- The turntable platter is in “extruded” polyvinyl, an even ‘deafer’ material that cannot be polished but is ideal for the intended use. Below

the platter are 9 gold-plated brass weights, which increase the peripheral inertia of the platter and thus further improve the rotational
regularity and stability.

- The spindle is probably the best the market has to offer today. 60 mm long (one of the longest spindles in existence), it is made with top-

of-the-range materials and machined with CNC lathes, than rectified to achieve super high-level tolerances. A large longitudinal groove is
located on its axis, which allows the lubricating oil to run in constant manner.

- The longer spindle eradicates any pendulum effect and distributes the inertial energy along its entire axis, completely annulling any type of

lateral friction.

- When the turntable is new the spindle will tend to “clean” any residual dirt in the bearing (which no preventive cleaning is capable of

completely removing). In this way even the tiniest residual friction built up after only a few dozen hours operation will be completely
eliminated.

- The bearing that houses the spindle is made entirely in bronze and has a screw in WHITE ARNITE® located on the bottom that allows for:

- Perfect coupling.

- Adjustment of the VTA carried out directly on the turntable board!!

- The possibility of eliminating virtually every type of friction that could build up during the years with conventional

bearing/spindles.