This analog combination from UK based Origin Live consists of the Calypso MK4 turntable, Illustrious Tonearm, Multi-Layer platter and the Silver Hybrid external detachable tonearm cable.

Origin Live is the creation of Mark Baker who’s passionate about retrieving the utmost information from those tiny grooves pressed into vinyl, but doing it with the utmost ease, refinement, transparency and musical integrity.

Including the original boxes and manuals. The historic newprice was 6.000 euro, the current newprice significantly higher (pricelist is available), now this analog combination can be obtained for 2.990 euro.

Review Christiaan Kaptein, www.hifi-advice.com

“..Conclusion
The Origin Live Calypso Mk4 with Illustrious tonearm is flabbergastingly good! Tonally neutral, it has absolutely no coldness or hardness or any other sonic clue that can sometimes be attributed to a technically extremely well-executed reproduction. Nope, this turntable’s full-color- and harmonically rich delivery is the antithesis of a cool or sterile sound. Yet, and that’s what’s so fantastic about this player: it has a transparency and resolution of low-level detail that I have not heard before from any other turntable. It keeps you at the tip of your seat in anticipation of what the next record will uncover but even though it is so very capable of unveiling microscopic details, it is in no way an actual microscope. The Calypso manages to combine all the desired audiophile aspects into a seamless whole that picks you up and takes you along for a musical ride. This is a music machine, designed to take away all the technical aspects to simply allow the music to come across.

By now, it will come as no surprise that I am totally smitten with this player. It is a permanent part of my system and I seriously doubt if there is a player out there that can beat it in terms of outright enjoyment and musical flow. And even in technical and audiophile terms, I’ve not heard a better performance than this. I know that much more expensive turntables exist, yet I struggle to think of any single area in which the Calypso/Illustrious combo could be meaningfully improved.

I can’t recommend it more highly – this is a must-hear!”