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ORIGIN LIVE SOVEREIGN MK3, 95% PERFORMANCE OF VERY BEST, STUNNING LOOKS + 2 ARM OPTION!

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Ships fromCarlsbad, CA, 92010
Ships toUnited States and Canada
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New MK3 Version takes Origin Lives’ Reference table to a New High!
Likely the highest sonic value in upper-end tables.


Origin has four tonearm options from $1850 to $6300 to compliment the Sovereign Mk3. Shown with optional Origin Live Conqueror MK3c Tonearm. Also available with dual armboard. Cartridge not included. 

Audio Revelation is a knowledgeable analog expert with 10-12 turntables, tonearms and 15+ cartridges on demo ready for audition. Our extensive experience with over 50 turntables and even more cartridges in various combinations means we’ll be able to help you find the sound you’re looking for.

 

Testimonials (on all Origin Live turntables.  Many of the reviews are on older versions - new versions are substantially improved)

"Sovereign" Reviews

"With all forms of music it remains effortlessly composed, giving tremendous insight into the original recording’s emotion. Detail levels stun, revealing subtleties we had never noticed even in some of our personal faves. The separation of instruments is fantastic too: the sound appears to be huge and beautifully spread through the vast soundstage, while bass is deep, tuneful and punchy... We can’t recommend this Origin Live deck highly enough: it has the power to stop a herd of wildebeest with it’s authority - yet it can also bring a grown man to his knees in tears."
- What Hi-Fi Magazine (read the review)

"The trio (Sovereign Conqueror Lyra Olympos) made me forget the walls of my listening room. Fed by well produced records you felt immediately transported into the recording location. In terms of speed, the combination not only gets from zero to one hundred in record time, but also gets back to standing in the same time. So much detail, so much speed, so much space and such a full presentation should be hard to get anywhere else at this price. For me ORIGIN LIVE in the analogue sector is the discovery of the year!"
- Dirk Sommer, Image Hi-Fi

"All in all, this combination of turntable / tonearm is so close to the absolute, that I just can’t find any criticism, not even a very minor one; I would just like to have had more time to discover further possibilities to achieve the extreme musical pleasure available with this pairing... At the moment I hold the Sovereign at the very top of current production turntables up to the price point immediately before craziness"
 - Bebo Moroni-Fedelt, del Suono magazine

"An astounding table that always performs to the highest levels and in the most balanced, musical way possible. Even when compared against benchmark tables at double the price it’s always beautifully compelling and fully competitive. What more can you ask? Note: I’ve had more than one customer who shopped here and heard all/most of my best tables and say that if they weren’t going to buy the near $20,000 Brinkmann or Avid Reference the Sovereign would be their choice."
- Jay, Audio Revelation

 

"Resolution" Reviews 

"The new Resolution MK2 is one of the quietest turntables I have yet heard ....now comes part assembled and is much easier to set up than many suspended types. The Resolution MK2 and Encounter MK3 are superbly designed and built, and proved a pleasure to use.......The result then was breathtaking power and passion, without the need to turn up the volume particularly high... It was thumbs aloft then for the latest Origin Live Resolution MK2 and Encounter MK3 tonearm."
 - Hi-Fi World

Most companies would be thrilled to receive a review with just one of the amazing quotes below from Michael Fremer - Origin Live got three.  These reviews were of the original Mk1 version - the Mk2 is very much better.

"In fact, this arm-table combo is one of the finest performers I’ve heard at any price... I could make a case for preferring this $4465 spread to my $20,000+ rig... The Resolution Modern works brilliantly, is well-built, and its price is right. But regardless of price, this is one of the truly special products I’ve reviewed in the past 18 years."
- Michael Fremer, Stereophile 

"A beautifully crafted, superb sounding turntable that’s a smoother, more beguiling alternative to the best of the rest. If a turntable like Origin Live’s Resolution had come out twenty years ago, the whole hi-fi world would have gone bananas. Here’s a brilliantly designed thoroughly modern way to play music."
- Hi-Fi World

"Calypso" Reviews

"Via the Calypso, music sounds crisp and focused, with bags of individualilty and presence. One got a clear idea of the various instruments occupying defined spaces, with a solid impression of ambience ... The Calypso sounded very cohesive and "together". Voices and instruments were separated and retained their individuality, but it always sounded like everyone was playing together ...  Surface noise is very low and the Calypso gives inky-black backgrounds ... Quite certainly, while listening to the Origin Live Calypso, I thought "it doesn’t get much better than this". But that’s a dangerous thing to say, given that the Calypso isn’t even Origin Live’s top model.
 - Jimmy Hughes, hi-fi+

"This turntable gets the thumbs up it thoroughly deserves for the fine performance it provided"
 - Malcolm Steward, HI FI CHOICE  

"Aurora" Reviews 

"The Origin Live Aurora MKII is a truly significant product. No other turntable near its price is even close to its sonic and music-making abilities... Considering that there are turntables on the market that demand a mortgage to buy, the Aurora MKII’s $1350 price is unusually rational. Mark Baker has done it again: the Aurora MKII sets the musical and sonic standard for its price range. It is capable of communicating the intent of all kinds of music and of triggering the deepest and most exalted musical ecstasy. My wholehearted recommendation!"
 - Paul Szabady, Stereotimes (read the review)

"Surely the best £750 black disc spinner in outright sonic terms"
 - Hi-Fi World
 

"Clear precise presentation; realistic vocals; full-bodied attack; thrilling dynamics ... The moment you spin some vinyl, the sound stuns... This is what vinyl’s all about - close your eyes and you’ll believe the singers are in your room...delivers realism of the highest order... dynamics are excellent, which means continually engrossing performances and edge of the seat listening. You also get a vast, room filling soundstage... the sonic news couldn’t be better... It looks like a star and sounds like heaven - a class leader in every respect."
- What Hi-Fi; Group Test Winner and 5 Star Rating for Aurora Mk 1

"The musical and sonic resolution of this Origin Live pair results in a deep aesthetic reaction to music, the most satisfactory and consistent I’ve yet experienced. A Most Wanted Component of the Year? Yes."
- Stereo Times

"This is one of the few turntables I could listen to for days at a time with no hint of listening fatigue. It presents the music as it was recorded... Pace is second to none along with precision and an extremely believable sound stage. Even with the least expensive pick up arm, this turntable projects an image that is frighteningly realistic..."
- Hi-Fi World

Winner of Stereo Times most wanted component of the year Award in combination with the Illustrious tonearm.  "Simply stated, the Origin Live Illustrious tonearm/Aurora Gold turntable produce the best musical results of any turntable I’ve ever heard, regardless of price. The level of musical communication available from the Illustrious/Aurora Gold is in a class by itself. It sets a new reference." 
-Stereo Times, Most Wanted Components

Overview

The Sovereign MK3 turntable incorporates the latest thinking to produce one of the highest performing turntables available, regardless of price or reputation. The deck is a non-suspended sub-chassis design built with the highest grade materials to the highest design tolerances.

Fabulous Style
Chrome plated pods, chrome assemblies with black plinth and frost finish or white platter make this deck a design showpiece.

High Grade Parts
- High mass plinth using low resonance sandwich construction.
- Triple plinth decoupling.
- Low resonance high inertia platter.
- Platter de-coupled with an inert sub-platter.
- Highly specified bearing.
- Special high grade oil is employed in the bearing.
- Rigid sub-chassis with low resonance and unique centre point support arrangement along with damping devices.
- High mass and specially damped motor housing.

Technical

MK3 tables:

Origin Live has introduced a number of major improvements in the MK3 range of turntables dramatically improving on their design of award winning products. The new decks represent a significant increase in performance and value to an already superb sound.

Technical enhancements over previous MK2 models are:

•New type of Acrylic platter material with reduced internal stresses.
•Increased thickness of platter due to changes in overall design.
•New Bearing hub designed for faster energy transmission.
•Lower friction bearing.
•Increased size of plinth for improved aesthetics and stability.
•Improved power supply.
•New belt Material now hand made delivers better sound.
•Quieter motor from additional pod damping.

The result is music reproduction with particular improvements in:

•Rock solid imaging.
•Reduced colouration.
•Refined presentation of low level information.
•More refined separation of individual insturments and vocals. 

Power supply
The regulated Ultra power supply feeding the motor is load compensating and stable across a wide range of temperatures. It uses more sophisticated circuitry, higher grade components and a top grade transformer. Speed control is switched electronically between 33 rpm and 45 rpm.

Setting up
There is nothing to go "out of tune" on the Sovereign. The deck is a non-suspended design using our unique single point cantilever suspension system, which requires no setting up and fuss free. VTA arm adjustment is provided for Origin Live and Rega arms, which makes setting the arm height much easier.

Dual Armboard version available (extra charge).

Specifications


  • High mass plinth machined from very high grade inert and expensive material.
  • Triple plinth decoupling
  • Low resonance high inertia platter
  • Platter de-coupled with an inert sub-platter
  • Highly specified bearing
  • High-grade military specification Arctic oil is employed in the bearing
  • Rigid sub-chassis with low resonance and unique centre point support arrangement along with damping devices
  • Even higher quality and more powerful DC motor than used on the Resolution
  • Dimensions: 490mm wide, 400mm deep, 160mm high
  • Heavyweight platter is an additional 2.1kg
  • Weight: 60 lbs.

California sales subject to sales tax.

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