Isolate Your Turntable by Floating It on a Cushion of Air
Why isolate your turntable with ordinary isolation feet when you can float it on a cushion of air - breaking the physical bonds that can otherwise transmit vibration.
Designed by the vinyl playback wizards at Michell, LEVIS feet use opposing magnets to support the weight of your turntable. LEVIS combat vibrations in your listening room by adding an additional level of structural isolation between the sensitive parts of your turntable and its supporting surface.
Disruptive Vibrations are All Around Us
Turntable isolation is vital, because there are more potential sources of disruptive vibration than most people are aware of, and they can all have a detrimental effect on LP listening.
Structural vibrations occur when dynamic forces generated by things such as loudspeakers, footfalls, outside traffic, electrical transformers, and even turntable motors make the supporting surface of your turntable vibrate. These vibrations, no matter how small, can travel into your turntable and enter the signal chain, obscuring fine details and otherwise compromising playback. LEVIS feet effectively eliminate these vibrations before they can become a problem.
Making Magic Happen
Making a turntable float in the air isn't a simple matter. When designing a magnetic levitation device, consideration must be given to controlling the action of the levitation and containing the assembly to keep the parts together. After all, some pieces must touch somewhere, or your turntable won't stay in place as it attempts to float.
Great care was taken with the LEVIS design. Michell's engineers examined how similar devices dealt with levitation issues and were dissatisfied with the approaches they saw. So, in typical Michell fashion, they went their own way instead, opting for a fully enclosed design with minimal contact.
'Pinpoint' Contact Only!
After set-up, the only physical contact between the upper and lower sections of each LEVIS foot are confined to three 'unloaded' radius points that are so small, they are almost pinpoints.
Made of high-rigidity, low mass polymer, these pinpoints of contact are not load bearing, They are isolated from the metal parts by a polymer housing and spring and are only present to ensure the metal parts of the feet do not touch. This design gives an extremely low level of contact, getting as close as possible to contact-free support.
Heavy-Duty Floating Support
Don't let the 'pinpoint' contact fool you into thinking LEVIS feet are designed for lightweight 'tables. A set of three will accommodate full-size turntables with hinged lids weighing between 28.6 lb. and 66 lb. In other words, they will support the vast majority of models on the market.
