Deze analoge combinatie van het Britse Origin Live bestaat uit de Calypso MK4 loopwerk, Illustrious toonarm, Multi-Layer plateau en de Silver Hybrid toonarm kabel.

Origin Live is de creatie van Mark Baker, een man met een passie voor vinyl weergave. Zijn creaties blinken uit door een vloeiende weergave, verfijning, transparantie en muzikale integriteit.

Inclusief de originele verpakkingen en handleidingen. De toenmalige nieuwprijs bedroeg ruim 6.000 euro, de huidige nieuwprijs is aanzienlijk hoger (prijslijst is aanwezig), nu is deze analoge combinatie beschikbaar voor 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!”