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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Harry McKerrell

Inside the Clearaudio factory: building £145,000 turntables and assembling cartridges by hand

Clearaudio turntables on racks with logo in the background.

Established German company Clearaudio has been producing audio products and components since 1978. In that time, it has probably forged the strongest aspect of its reputation as a purveyor of turntables and cartridges, many of which are targeted at the high-end and luxury consumer markets, but it was a duo of loudspeakers – the Delta and Sigma standmounts – which marked the brand's official debut.

From its surprisingly bucolic factory situated on the edge of Erlangen, a Bavarian city around 30 minutes north of Nuremberg, Clearaudio continues to produce a raft of audio products in-house, with almost all areas of research, design, development and production happening from the site itself.

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