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It's a taste thing.
It can make a surprising difference to the tone of your guitar.
Best bet is to play around and adjust accordingly - certainly no set measurement - If to close you can generally hear a nasty sort of clangy attack, especially when hitting Who style power chords, just as a reference - So back of accordingly until this cleans up - If to low you lose bite/power, but some might like this for a chilled voice
Best bet is a marginal adjustment each time, then you only need to fine tune a touch to go back to as was
The only wrong pickup height setting is if it's so close the strings hit it when you play hard - that doesn't sound good.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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I had a strat that I just could not get the intonation right no matter what I did... turned out the bridge pickup was too close and gave the string a weird sitar like harmonic overtone that was screwing with the tuner.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein