Clearaudio Performance DC Turntable

The Clearaudio Performance DC is a serious high-end turntable designed for listeners who want a substantial leap in analogue performance, engineering sophistication, and long-term upgrade potential. Manufactured in Germany and drawing directly from Clearaudio’s reference-level designs, the Performance DC delivers exceptional speed accuracy, extremely low noise, and a sense of scale and stability that elevates vinyl playback to a truly immersive experience.

The foundation of the Performance DC is a high-mass, resonance-controlled chassis engineered to suppress vibration and isolate the record from external interference. Combined with Clearaudio’s precision DC motor system and advanced motor control electronics, the Performance DC maintains outstanding speed stability, allowing pitch, timing, and rhythmic structure to remain rock-solid across all types of music.

A key performance upgrade lies in Clearaudio’s CMB (Ceramic Magnetic Bearing) technology, which dramatically reduces bearing friction and mechanical noise by partially levitating the platter on a magnetic field. This design lowers the noise floor and improves micro-detail retrieval, resulting in cleaner transients, more nuanced textures, and a more spacious, three-dimensional soundstage.

The Performance DC is fitted with the Clearaudio Satisfy Kardan tonearm, a high-precision gimbal-bearing design that offers extremely low friction, excellent channel balance, and stable tracking across the entire record surface. The tonearm’s rigidity and precision allow cartridges to extract maximum information from the groove while preserving musical flow and tonal coherence. Completing the system is the Clearaudio Performer V2 moving magnet cartridge, factory-matched to the tonearm for optimal compatibility and reliable, high-resolution playback right out of the box.

With its clean, understated aesthetics and modular construction, the Performance DC is designed not only to perform at a high level today, but to grow with your system over time. It offers clear upgrade paths in cartridges, power supplies, and tonearm options, making it an ideal foundation for a long-term analogue system.

Included Items

• Clearaudio Satisfy Kardan tonearm

• Clearaudio Performer V2 moving magnet cartridge