Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2016/02/03

Clearaudio’s goal with the original Statement was to leverage everything their development team have learned in 30 years of audio engineering and to bring together new technologies never before seen in combination, to make a cost-no-object, state-of-the-art masterpiece. Fast forward a decade and the team remains equally dedicated to breaking the rules and boundaries of music reproduction: hence the outstanding new Statement ‘v2’, painstakingly advanced with a raft of striking developments. Here are some details which Clearaudio shared with us:
The sheer presence and beauty of the Statement’s structural design has always been a major talking point and the new v2 looks magnificent with its sumptuous piano-black lacquer finish and matching black turntable platter. Its massive integrated stand, which comprises four stainless steel legs separated and supported by eight curved supports, is completely damped against resonance. The supports feature a sandwich construction of aluminum plates filled with Panzerholz, a high-density bullet-proof manufactured wood renowned for its acoustic damping properties. The top layers of the massive stand now incorporate thousands of tiny metal ball bearings embedded within the aluminum and Panzerholz sandwich, for incredible levels of resonance control.
One of the original Statement’s most prized innovations was its magnetic bearing technology, in which the platter is magnetically suspended so that there is no mechanical connection between platter and drive motor. The motor uses a belt to drive the lower of two sub-platters, which contains a series of very strong magnets. Floating above it is an upper sub-platter containing an opposing set of magnets. The two sub-platters never touch and are held at a precise distance by the strong magnetic field. Attached to the upper sub-platter is a bearing spindle, which is connected to the main platter. In short, the main platter effectively floats on a cushion of air. The previously acrylic main platter has been replaced with a POM version, with its higher density and superior damping properties. The driven lower sub-platter has a newly-machined outer surface to better mate with the drive belt for even finer transmission and performance.
In the Statement v2, the bearing spindle is replaced with an enhanced design manufactured from Wolfram carbide, to which a nano-nitrate coating is applied by laser, providing vastly superior strength and stability. The v2’s electronic speed control circuitry is completely new. A brand new circuit board featuring upgraded components gives even more precise speed control and stability. At the same time, the motor pulley and belt have been redesigned, fine tuning them for superior noise reduction.
Moving down, the main gyroscopic bearing that supports the entire floating structure has been improved and upgraded for better performance. A 95kg damped self-leveling pendulum hangs from the gyroscopic bearing and comprises a series of stainless steel plates, eccentrically weighted by drilling out a portion of each plate’s inner periphery. Careful rotation of the various plates yields a platter that is perfectly level with the earth’s surface (as distinct from your floor) and with whichever tonearms are being used.
While the Statement accommodates up to four tonearms, the arm “par excellence” is the Statement TT1 tangential tonearm. Designed specifically and exclusively for the Statement turntable, it too has been upgraded. The TT1 is constructed in two main parts. A supporting rail, in the form of a complex glass tube, occupies a fixed position parallel to the record’s radius. A high-precision carriage holding a straight carbon fiber tonearm runs along the rail. In the new TT1 v2, the arm carriage now hangs below the glass rail, rather than above it, which provides greater stability and hence improves consistency of performance. The carbon fiber arm tube now has improved internal damping and carries a black anodized aluminum head-shell. Ease and precision of VTA adjustment, already strong features in the original TT1, are now even better: a new reference scale enables even simpler, more precise and repeatable VTA adjustments.
Finally, to finish up-top, the Statement v2 is crowned with a peerless dual record clamping system: the stainless steel and Panzerholz Statement Clamp features three-point resonance absorption technology, while the Outer Limit record clamp holds down the entire outer edge of the record without touching the grooves, its 1.5 kg weight adding to the flywheel effect and flattening minor warps leading to a significant sonic improvement.

For more information: http://clearaudio.de/

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