Clearaudio Bluemotion Start Smart, Emotion Red Start Smart, Emotion Black Start Smart User Manual

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www.clearaudio.de

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User manual
Bedienungsanleitung

Emotion Start Smart

Bluemotion
Start Smart

Emotion Black
Start Smart

Emotion Red
Start Smart

Made in Germany

V

ersion 1.5_27.10.08_E+D

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Dear clearaudio customer,

Congratulation’s to your choice of the

Emotion-Start Smart

turntable, a world class

turntable, made by clearaudio electronic GmbH.
Resonance minimized shape in combination with a stand alone motor unit,
guarantees total isolation of resonances from the turntable chassis, providing the
best music reproduction and authentic High End imaging. A high precision,
maintenance free sinter bronze bearing is completing the analogue pleasure.

Please read this instructions carefully, to avoid any damages or loss of warranty.
These instructions will help you with an easy set-up and guarantee the highest
pleasure for a long time.

We wish you a lot of musical enjoyments with your new clearaudio

Emotion-Start

Smart

turntable.

clearaudio electronic GmbH

CE-MARKING

The clearaudio

Emotion Start Smart

meets the regulations concerning

electromagnetic disturbance (EMC) and low-voltage appliances.

COPYRIGHT

Recording und reproduction of any sound-material may require the consent of the
creator.
Please acknowledge the information given in the

- Copyright Act 1956,

- Dramatic and Musical Performers Act 1958,

- Performers Protection Acts 1963 and 1072,

any more recent legal regulations.

WARNINGS

Don’t expose your turntable to rain or humidity.
Don’t handle the mains leads with wet hands.
Don’t place or insert anything into the equipment or through ventilation holes.
No naked flame sources, such as lighted candles, should be placed on the equipment.

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Contents

User manual 3 – 12
Bedienungsanleitung 13 - 26

1. Packing overview 3

2. Packing contents 4

3. Installation and set up 6

4. Service 9

5. Special directions 11

6. Technical data 12

Warranty information 26

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1. Packing overview

Layers:

Top layer

Middle layer

Bottom layer

Accessories,

motor,

tonearm, user

manual,

warranty card

(pic. 1)

Turntable

chassis incl.

mounted lower

and upper

bearing part

(p

ic. 2)

Turntable

Platter

(pic. 3)

Picture 1: Packing overview

1

2

3

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2. Packing contents

clearaudio has developed a special and secure turntable packing for your

Emotion Start Smart

turntable, to avoid any transportation-damages.

Please store this original packing, in case you need to ship the turntable.
Below you can find the content of delivery of the clearaudio

Emotion Start Smart

turntable:

1. Turntable body with mounted lower
bearing part

2. Turntable-Platter

3. Bearing (upper part) with adjusted
bearing shaft

4. Motor drive unit with feeder

5.

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Tonearm (direct-wired) 5a. Counterweight to adjust the

tracking force

6. Acrylic motor pulley 7. 3 x Aluminium feet

8. 3 x Stainless steel threaded bolts
(metric)

9. Emotion Acrylic dust cover

10. Smart Wire 1 m

1

2

3

5 / 5a

4

6

7

8

10

9

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11. clearaudio Smart phono 12. Cartridge

clearaudio MM Classic Wood

13. 1 Pair of white gloves 14. grounding - wire for the

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-

Start Smart

Turntable (connect to in

the bottom bearing part)

15. clearaudio logo, self - adhesive 16. Level gauge for the turntable

alignment and for tonearm height
adjustment

17. 2 pcs. drive belts 18. 3 pcs. Allen – key

(sizes: 1.5 / 2.5 / 3)

19. Aluminium precision screw driver 20. Bearing oil for occasional use

21. Record clamp “Clever Clamp” 22. No illustration: User Manual

23. No illustration: warranty card,

clearaudio Quality Card

24. No illustration: cartridge alignment
gauge for

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-tonearm

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11

12

13

14

15

16 17

19 20 21

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1 mm

3. Installation and set up

The

Emotion Start Smart

-turntable comes in several pre mounted parts, as
described under chapter 2 (Scope of supply). The set up and installation is done
quickly and very easy. Please use the white gloves during this procedure, to avoid
scratches.
You should consider a safe and clean working area for the installation, in spite, as
near as possible to the final position of the

Emotion Start Smart

turntable.

1.) First take out the motor and tonearm of the packing. Now you should take out
the first packing layer. After that you can take out the

Emotion Start Smart

turntable
body from the next packing layer. Place the turntable body on a on a clean underlay
so that the bearing hole is facing upside.

2.) In the accessory bag (placed in the top packing layer) you will find 3 aluminium
feet and 3 stainless steel threaded bolts. Screw the 3 bolts about 10 millimetre
inwards into the aluminium feet. Screw the 3 feet into the pre drilled holes of the
turntable body, while tightening them gently. Then take the turntable body and
place it on the area where the final position of your

Emotion Start

Smart

turntable will be.

3.) Now take the motor-pulley out of the accessory bag
and shift the motor pulley as far as on the motors shaft until you have
a distance of approximately 1 mm between the upper edge of the
motor and the lower edge of the pulley. Now screw the three screws in
the pulley one
after the other with the precision screw driver.

4.) Lift the turntable chassis and slide it over the motor unit through the motor­position hole in the turntable body so that the rubber-o- ring around the housing of
the motor is fixing the final position. Please pay attention, that the switch of the
motor is outside on the left side of the record player body.

Tip: You have also the possibility to take off the rubber-o-ring
of the motor’s housing to centre the motor in the motor­position hole without any contact to the turntable chassis !
This way you can use your

Emotion Start Smart

turntable

perfectly decoupled from the motor.

5.) Now you can connect the power cord to your power outlet.
On the bottom packing layer you will find the turntable platter.
Please take the platter with both hands and place it on the bearing
upper part. Through a lightly up and down movement the platter
will slip onto the bearing upper part.
Make sure with a gently pressure that the platter is applying on
the complete surface of the bearing.

Picture 2: Mounting the pulle

y

Picture 3+4: Placing the platter on
the bearing upper part

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6.) Place the clearaudio level gauge on the platter and bring the
turntable in level by turning the corresponding spikes in the right
direction.
The following adjustment is very important:

should the air bubble in the level gauge not be in the black circle (see at
the blow up), please ensure then that your underground so will be
according aligned. Only if the turntable will be aligned you will receive
the optimum on sound.

7.) Take the threaded bolt (metric winding size 6) out of your
accessory bag and screw it with the adequate allen key into the
winding near the tonearm cut of the turntable chassis, so that
the front of the bolt is not facing out the inner side of the
tonearm cut.

8.) Now it’s the right time to mount your cartridge on your

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-tonearm.
Please use the manufacturer’s instruction manual while this
installation procedure and follow the appropriate instructions.
The headshell wires (cartridge connection leads) are colour coded according to the
international
standard :

Please pay attention on every step to avoid any damages to the cartridge !

9.) Now take the

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-tonearm with the mounted cartridge (and
the stylus protector on it!) and slide first the signal cable and then the
tonearm shaft into the pre-drilled hole on the right side of the

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turntable body. Let the tonearm slide as far into
the hole as the cuing lever unit sits on the clearaudio level gauge
(accessorie box) as shown in the beneath picture. If you like to use a
mat on the turntable platter, please consider to add the thickness of
the mat while adjusting the tonearm height.
Please ensure that the tonearm tube is in parallel to the right edge of the turntable
body. Fix this position while
gently locking the allen screw in the turntable-body’s edge.
Now adjust the tracking force of the cartridge. Please follow the instructions
according the manual of the cartridge you use.
If you are using a clearaudio Moving Magnet cartridge (e.g. clearaudio

Aurum

classics Wood

) you can adjust the force (about 20 mN), by turning the tonearm`s

Colour code of the Satisfy tonearm wire:

Signal left channel (L+) → white
Signal ground left channel (L -) → blue
Signal right channel (R+) → red
Signal ground right channel (R -) → green

Picture 5: Alignment of the

Picture 6: To screw the threaded bolt

Picture 7: Tonearm hei

g

ht adjustment

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counter weight on the threaded bolt until you can see approximately eight threads
(backside view of the tonearm). This works only if the lead plate, which is part of
delivery of the clearaudio cartridge, is not mounted under the cartridge. If you have
problems with the adjustment of the tracking force you can also use tools like the
clearaudio

Weight Watcher

gauge (Art. No. AC094). For more informations on that,
please contact your specialist dealer or directly clearaudio.
For contact address see page 11.

For the next settings place any LP. Now you can remove the stylus protector.
If you now lift down the cartridge to the middle of the turntable platter, you must
see (from the side) that the upper edge of the tonearm tube is parallel to the surface
of the record.

10.) You can use the tonearm tube as orientation. If it is necessary you can adjust
the height of the tonearm. For that you have to move the tonearm in chassis’s hole
in the right direction and to fix these position through locking the allen screw in the
edge of the turntable chassis.
If you now lift down the cartridge again and take a look at the front side of the
cartridge you have to make sure that the upper edge of the cartridge is parallel to
the record surface. This adjustment had been set up perfectly by clearaudio. Only if
it is necessary, you can adjust the cartridge position, while carefully screw the small
allen screw on the bottom side of the tonearm tube near the headshell (Caution:
please don’t unscrew the allen screw completely). Now you can twist the headshell
with the mounted cartridge around his roll-axis. To achieve the most precise
adjustment you can use a set square.
If you have found the right position you can carefully lock the small allen screw
without changing the position defined before.

Don’t twist the headshell when the cartridge is lifted down and
the diamante tip is on the record. It is necessary to lift the tip
from the record, before you can prove the position again.

11.) For the final set-up of the tonearm, you need the cartridge
alignment gauge which is included as well. Slide the gauge over
the spindle of the turntable platter and turn the platter into the
position as shown on the beneath picture.

12.) Lift down the cartridge and place the diamond tip of the
cartridge on the reference point on the alignment gauge and make
sure that the edges of the tonearm tube are absolutely parallel to
the marking lines printed on the cartridge alignment gauge. For
that adjustment it is necessary to take a look directly from the top
on the tonearm and the alignment gauge.

13.) If you have to change the position of the diamond tip you can
unscrew the allen screw on the top of the tonearm`s
headshell and move the cartridge into the corresponding
position. Please make also sure that the leading edge of the

Picture 8: Alignment of the tonearm

Picture 9: The tonearm tube must be

absolute parallel