"It started the way most obsessions do. With a turntable."
A passion for a tonearm that was no longer being made, and the nagging feeling that something better was possible. What followed was years of evenings and weekends: a Lenco rescued from eBay, a first Aro-inspired arm built on an old manual lathe.
That first arm didn't appear from nowhere. Phil's father began his career as an apprentice at EMI, and spent decades solving complex precision engineering problems in industry. That experience is in every part of the Clear Wave.
Before the first Clear Wave could be made, the machines to make it had to be built. Years went into the tooling as much as into the arm itself, including a custom CNC mill rebuilt around a modern control system. A unipivot only earns its keep when every part is held to tolerances most workshops would never attempt. Get the machinery right, and the precision follows.
This isn't a passion project dressed up as a product. It's what happens when the right background meets the right obsession.
