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Origin Live Discovery 2 Phono Stage
75,000 บาท
When vinyl is played up to 90% of the total voltage amplification takes place in the phono stage. This makes the phono stage a most critical component in the audio chain. Most integrated amplifiers and preamplifiers are unable to offer truly high grade vinyl playback because they are built from an understandably small proportion of a total component budget.
Similarly, an integrated amplifier or preamplifier nearly always shares its internal power supplies with a number of analogue, digital and other control systems. It is not hard to see therefore how the tiny signal from a low output moving coil cartridge, which is 20,000 times smaller than a typical digital signal, can be seriously corrupted.
These reasons are what makes investing in a dedicated high grade phono stage one of the most effective system upgrades.
Purpose
The Origin Live Discovery 2 phono stage is designed to vastly improve on integrated preamplifier limitations by virtue of innovative circuit design, the use of high grade audio components and a significantly over specified external power supply. It amplifies the output from most moving magnet and moving coil cartridges and couples exceptionally well with coil impedances as low as 4 ohms.
Unlike many other phono stages, the Discovery 2 connects the cartridge directly to the amplification circuitry. There is no initial DC blocking or filtering in the electrical path to degrade the audio signal before it undergoes enormous amplification close to 100dB at 20Hz.
Sound Quality
The improvements that the Discover 2 brings to a system are spectacular. An immediate observation is vastly improved speed and timing. This is an important aspect which brings listeners much closer to the original performance. Other factors are increased transparency, greater dynamics and improved levels of detail.
A highly neutral tonal balance also means there is excellent imaging capability which leads to the presentation of a 3 dimensional sound stage – so appreciated by those who understand what makes music come alive.
Technical Aspects
The Discovery 2 is a high performance stand alone phono preamplifier, meticulously designed and packed with innovative thinking. It exhibits unrivalled sonic qualities with low noise amplification.
Design Philosophy
The phono stage is based on work carried out by Origin Live’s long established collaboration with highly experienced electronics design engineer Simon Clark backed by years of auditions and listening tests. It is built around a zero feedback passive equalisation RIAA filter and ultra high quality amplifier sections.
Each channel is treated separately and the use of high quality components allows the performance of the circuit to shine through. For faithful reproduction of the original recording the RIAA curve is followed as closely as possible making it flat to the RIAA standard by less than +/- 0.5dB.
Direct Path
Many external high grade phono stages, even well known ones, use a single ended DC power supply for simplicity and cost savings. These designs, almost without exception, need to block DC from the cartridge or else it would be destroyed. This fundamental design choice requires a capacitor to be placed in line with the cartridge and then right away, before any amplification takes place, the tiny analogue signal is degraded significantly. This degradation once amplified by up to 4000 times cannot be extracted from the original audio source.
This is why a direct path from the coil to the amplifier circuit is so important and explains in part the highly transparent sound quality of the Discovery 2.
Passive RIAA
Many phono stage designs incorporate an RIAA filter as part of a feedback loop. It makes sense to do this as the primary purpose of the phono stage is to amplify the cartridge signal whilst applying the RIAA filter. The problem with this design choice however is that the amplifiers gain becomes frequency dependant and therefore subtle but audible changes are introduced that spread dynamically across the audio spectrum in real time. The net result is a tendency for such designs to add colouration to the audio signal that reduce its ultimate clarity.
The Origin Live Discovery 2 phono stage keeps the RIAA filter squarely in the passive domain where it naturally corrects the recorded frequency response away from any frequency based, loop feedback side effects.
Power Supply
Much attention has gone into the power supply design which is critical to faithfully amplify ultra low level signals. It features several layers of filtration and regulation designed to isolate and create a pure electrical source for signal amplification.
The AC mains is first EMC filtered to remove up to 70dB of unwanted electromagnetic and high frequency interference from being passed through to the power supply.
Spike and transient suppression techniques are also used to minimise unwanted noise appearing in the audible frequency spectrum.
The DC supply fed between the PSU module and the phono stage is balanced and therefore exhibits excellent common mode noise rejection.
The filtered DC is then regulated to ensure that regardless of voltage changes to the AC mains supply the amplifier circuitry is run at a completely steady DC voltage.
Audition
The result of this attention to detail is a phono stage which massively improves the quality of vinyl replay and is far in advance of many more costly rivals.
The true test of any product is a personal audition and we invite you to contact us directly.
Specifications
Gain – 46, 56 and 66dB
Input Impedance – 100, 240, 400, 820 and 47K ohms
RIAA deviation – 20Hz – 20kHz +/- 0.5dB
Noise – 1nV per Hz squared
Power consumption – 2W
Dimensions in mm – 109 x 59 x 190 (W x H x D)
Mains supply – 230V or 110V (factory set)
Connections:
RCA phono input sockets
RCA phono output sockets (positive and negative phases)
Ground terminal
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A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE AT A LAUGHABLY LOW OFFER The unique Origin Live "upgrade" mat acts as the critical interface between your vinyl records and turntable.
Experimentation with different mats are simple and quick. The sound differences are usually obvious , even if your deck does not have a mat.
Users find that the "upgrade" mat makes a far greater difference than most mats but more importantly it is a positive difference to every aspect of the music.
Bringing Music alive:
The new mat will greatly enhance your level of enjoyment due to the way it brings recordings alive. Music becomes far better integrated and more natural. In particular bass is solid and keeps time with the rest of the music - too often one hears slow bass that lacks attack, and has an overhang which muddies the rest of the music.
Not only this but the mat produces bass extension of maybe an extra octave. This new dimension of speed and air is not limited to the bass regions but extends right through the frequency range. The key words to summarise the differences this mat makes are - natural, dynamic and transparent.
Tone From a Mat
The other week, I attended 2 live music performances given by entirely different groups. It was interesting that in the first, a violinist added superbly to a non classical band - the leader remarked afterwards "she has amazing tone". Later that week an Orchestra conductor was introducing a lead cornet player doing a solo and remarked "he has superb tone". After listening to the first few notes I could understand what he meant. It was the sort of rendition that was so noticably pleasurable to the ear that you wanted to keep listening. Another player, playing the same instrument may be technicaly brilliant, hit all the right notes but just not be that pleasant to listen to.
This provoked a lot of thought on the similarities of "tone" in hi fi equipment. It has to do with that indefinable "something" that measurements don't really have much hope of capturing. Some may claim to have the answers, but the truth is usually far more complex. The point of this story is that every material in the hi fi replay chain has a tone and some are far superior to others. The material you use to support the actual playing surface in vinyl is probably one of the most important.
A great platter mat has 3 functions which are very tricky to reconcile:
1. To decouple the record from vibration entering it via the turntable - this includes bearing noise, transmitted motor noise through the drive system, cartridge feedback "chatter" transmitted via the tonearm into the deck, groundbourne/ airbourne audio feedback, underground pumps etc.
2. To absorb and transmit resonance out of the record itself. It is hard to imagine the microscopic levels that a hi fi cartridge functions at. The truth is, that a stylus vibrating in a record groove sets the vinyl resonating in a way that will feedback into the stylus if not highly controlled. This feedback may be momentary to the tiniest fraction of a second but will nonetheless create blurring of the signal and overlay other parts so that they will not be heard. In other words there can be loss of information and addition of spurious noise to the intended signal. A good platter mat can do a great deal to eliminate these problems.
3. To transmit the drive to the record without elasticity or slip Unlikely as it may seem, the surface that the record sits on responds very slightly to the amount of drag on the record. At best, this will be a very slight momentary elastic movement backwards, but enough to slightly deaden the impact of a bass note drum strike for example. At worst it will cause the record to slip backwards - this is only blatently obvious when you can hear wow occuring, as in the case of a badly dished record, that only contacts the platter in the centre.
Over a year ago we introduced a semi rigid mat that we called the "performance mat". Feedback on this mat was almost universaly positive with users reporting superior performance over recognised market leaders that they already owned.
Further experimantation led to a new flexible composite material which sounded even better. Not just a bit better but a lot better. To be fair the new flexible mat (which we are calling the "upgrade" mat) does most things that the "performance" mat does, only it does them better - especially in the bass area. However the 2 mats can complement each other and the semi-rigid performance mat does add a touch of additional transparency to the flexible upgrade mat.
Finding a mat that works universaly well on all turntables is almost like the quest for the Holy Grail. In over 22 years we have experimented with countless platter mats varying from felt, fiberglass, air gap, various foams, cork, graphite, carbon fiber, acrylic, PVC, MDF, aluminium, rubber, silicon and steel laminates etc. This is to name but a few. Many of these mats yield significant improvements to some areas but have drawbacks in others.
A mat that works well on acrylic platters is almost unheard of but this one really does the trick! It also interfaces well with metal, glass and composite platters.
The Origin Live upgrade mat is only 1 mm thick, and so is well within the ability of most tonearm height adjusters. The material mix from which it is manufactured must remain confidential.
New Origin Live Upgrade Platter Mat
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Turntable Motor & Power Supply Upgrade
UPGRADE OPTIONS TO GIVE MAXIMUM RETURN ON INVESTMENT
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Option 1 Budget version to fix and upgrade budget decks: Standard Speed control box | DC100 Motor | Wallwart mains voltage reducer 11,000 บาท
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Option 2 Most popular version as it improves massively on Option 1 in terms of speed consistency and performance for relatively little extra cost: Advanced Speed Control Box | DC100 Motor | Wallwart mains voltage reducer 15,500 บาท
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Option 3 Increased definition, transparency, lower noise and overall coherence due to improved transformer: Advanced Speed Control Box | DC100 Motor | Round transformer (Fully balanced) 20,000 บาท
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Option 4 Better definition, dynamics, transparency, lower noise and overall coherence due to large and improved transformer: Advanced Speed Control Box DC100 Motor | Large Upgrade Transformer (Fully balanced, low noise Large) 30,000 บาท
> - Option 5 Increased transparency and dynamics gained through refined circuit design: Ultra Speed Controller Box | DC100 Motor | LargeUpgrade transformer (Fully balanced, low noise Large) 40,000 บาท
อ่านบทวิจารณ์
https://www.originlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DC-Motor-Kit-HiFi-World-Review.pdf - HiFi World
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Origin Live Silver Tonearm
ราคา 30,000 บาท
The Silver
Benchmark Sound
When first launched back in 2002 the Silver recieved widespread acclaim for outperforming high-end arms at a fraction of the cost. Hailed by the editor of Hi-Fi World as the best arm he’d ever heard (and he’d heard many many arms). The Silver set the benchmark for our cost effective designs that overtook both the SME and Ekos arms in performance. Since then the Silver tonearm has undergone significant upgrading as we have gradually brought all of our production in house ans developed our technologies.
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Silver has a wide range of strengths which make it a great all-rounder. Highly musical, it tracks dynamics accurately and gets right into the groove of the music. You will expect to hear improved speed, dynamics and seperation in the music over the Onyx due to it’s sophisticated tonearm tube design. The Silver also includes higher grade external cable which improves bass weight in comparison to the Onyx. It has a natural tonal balance with excellent transparency and fine performance at both frequency extremes.
เมื่อออกวางตลาดในปี 2002 โทนอาร์มรุ่น Silver ได้รับการกล่าวขวัญจากนักเล่นกันมากว่าเป็นโทนอาร์มระดับไฮเอนที่มีราคาย่อมเยา ถึงขนาดนำไปเปรียบเทียบกับโทนอาร์ม SME และ Linn Ekos เลยทีเดียวทั้งที่ราคานั้นย่อมเยากว่ากันหลายเท่า โทนอาร์มรุ่นนี้จึงเป็นการ upgrade ของคนรักแผ่นเสียงที่คุ้มค่าอย่างยิ่ง เนื่องจากผู้ผลิตไม่เคยหยุดพัฒนาการออกแบบและการผลิตโทนอาร์มมาโดยตลอดนั่นเอง โทนอาร์มรุ่น Silver นี้มี่จุดเด่นมากมายหลายอย่าง เช่น ให้ความเป็นดนตรีสูง มีความแม่นยำในการเกาะร่องแผ่นเสียงทำให้หัวเข็มอ่านแผ่นได้ชัดเจน ได้เสียงดนตรีที่มีแรงปะทะและมีมิติสมจริงเหนือกว่าโทนอาร์มระดับไฮเอนหลายยี่ห้อในตลาด ด้วยโทนอาร์มและสายสัญญาณคุณภาพสูงจึงได้คุณภาพเสียงที่เป็นธรรมชาติมีรายละเอียดสมจริง
Features
All critical items employ advanced alloys and innovative techniques:
Single-piece aircraft alloy tube with special stub for improved counterweight rigidity Robust, highly specified bearings, housed in an advanced decoupled yokeHigh grade Internal Litz wiring with upgrade external cable and RCA plugsIntegral VTA adjustmentFits all Rega armboard cutouts – old style threaded base or new 3-point mountingOptional SME adaptor, for easy fitting to any SME armboardLP12 armboard also available
โทนอาร์มผลิตด้วยการขึ้นรูปเป็นชิ้นเดียวจากอัลลอยด์เกรดอากาศยาน และแกนท้ายอาร์มปรับปรุงใหม่เพื่อให้ตุ้มถ่วงน้ำหนักท้ายอาร์มแน่นหนามั่นคงมากขึ้น มีจุดหมุนและลูกปืนที่คุณภาพสูงกว่ารุ่นเดิม ใช้สายสัญญาณในโทนอาร์มของ Litz และสายสัญญาณภายนอกกับหัว RCA ใช้เป็นรุ่นพิเศษ สามารถปรับมุม VTA ได้ สามารถนำไปติดตั้งบนแท่นของ Rega ได้เลยทั้งแบบขันน๊อตข้างใต้และยึดน๊อตด้านบน และยังสามารถใช้ตัวเสริมเพื่อติดตั้งบนแท่นของ SME ได้ง่าย ตลอดจนมีอาร์มบอร์ดสำหรับ Linn Sondek LP12 จำหน่ายด้วย
อ่านบทวิจารณ์ของ The Silver Tonearm
https://www.originlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Silver-Tonearm-HFW-Review-02.pdf
Onyx Tonearm
Great Value, Greater Performance.
ราคา 19,000 บาท Out of stock
สามารถติดตั้งบนเครื่องเล่น REGA ได้ทุกรุ่นทันที
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The Onyx
The Onyx gives you supreme value with a performance which exceeds many £3000 arms. With its superior low friction gimbal bearings, you will expect to hear greater transparency and seperation in the sound, giving you a clear defined mid-range. You’ll hear contrast and detail between instruments and vocals giving you an immediate, coherent sound.
Sonically, it marks a significant step up from the Alliance tonearm – and indeed from most tonearms on sale. It comfortably outperforms the original Origin Live Silver MK1, which was thought to be one of the best arms on sale at its release. Indeed, it still outperforms many arms in the £3,000 region.
The Onyx was designed as an affordable performance benchmark – a tonearm that would flatter any budget or mid-price turntable and still be happy on a high-end deck. The Onyx was only possible thanks to Origin Live’s decades of tonearm design expertise. It’s difficult to design a great high-end arm, but harder still to do a brilliant budget product. Knowing where to spend the money in the overall design is why Onyx sounds so good, and that knowledge doesn’t come easy.
The Onyx เป็นโทนอาร์มที่สามารถให้เสียงที่มีคุณภาพเหนือกว่าโทนอาร์มเรือนแสนหลายๆยี่ห้อด้วยแบริ่งที่มีแรงเสียดทานต่ำ จึงทำให้การแยกเสียงของชิ้นดนตรีและเสียงร้องชัดเจนเหมือนมีตัวตน
พูดถึงน้ำเสียงของโทนอาร์มตัวนี้กล่าวได้ว่าเหนือกว่า Origin Live Alliance อย่างชัดเจน (Origin Live Alliance ไม่มีจำหน่ายผ่านตัวแทนในต่างประเทศ) และยังน่าจะดีกว่า Origin Live Silver MK1 ซึ่งได้เคยมีชื่อว่าเป็นโทนอาร์มที่คุณภาพคุ้มราคาอย่างยิ่งของ Origin Live ทีเดียว ตลอดจนโทนอาร์มเรือนแสนของอีกหลายๆยี่ห้อด้วยซ้ำ
The Onyx ได้ถูกออกแบบและผลิตเพื่อให้เป็นมาตรฐานอ้างอิงของโทนอาร์มราคาประหยัด ที่คุณภาพเหนือกว่าโทนอาร์มราคาถูกจนถึงปานกลางทั่วไป เพื่อสามารถติดตั้งบนเครื่องระดับไฮเอนและเล่นได้อย่างพึงพอใจ ต้องขอบคุณประสพการณ์หลายสิบปีของการค้นคว้าและออกแบบโทนอาร์มของ Origin Live ซึ่งได้เป็นองค์ความรู้เฉพาะทางที่ทำให้โทนอาร์มทุกตัวผลิตออกมาอย่างไม่มีอะไรสูญเปล่า ทุกอย่างเพื่อให้ได้เสียงที่ดีที่สุดอย่างแท้จริง
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Features
The Onyx design philosophy – and many parts – come from the legendary Silver tonearm:
Single-piece arm tube made from high-grade aircraft alloy
Robust, highly specified bearings, housed in an advanced decoupled yoke
High grade Internal Litz wiring with standard external cable and RCA plugs
Integral VTA adjustment
Fits all Rega armboard cutouts – old style threaded base or new 3-point mounting
The Onyx ใช้ปรัชญาแนวทางการออกแบบโทนอาร์มและชิ้นส่วนหลายชิ้นจากโทนอาร์ม รุ่น Silver ที่มีชื่อเสียงจนเป็นตำนานของ Origin Live ในอดีต โทนอาร์มผลิตจากอัลลอยคุณภาพสูงระดับที่ใช้ในการผลิตอากาศยานขึ้นรูปเป็นชิ้นเดียว จุดหมุนออกแบบเป็นพิเศษและลูกปืนใช้อะไหล่คุณภาพสูง ใช้สายโทนอาร์มคุณภาพสูงของLitz สายสัญญาณและหัวเสียบแบบ RCA คุณภาพมาตรฐาน อาร์มสามารถปรับมุม VTA ได้เหมาะสมกับหัวเข็มทุกยี่ห้อ สามารถติดตั้งบนแท่นของ Rega ได้ทั้งแบบเก่ายึดด้านล่างและแบบใหม่ยึดด้านบนได้
อ่านบทวิจารณ์ของ The Onyx Tonearm
“Sounds more human, more analogue, and more musical… represents excellent value for money and comes highly recommended… offers a relaxing, expansive and musical sound hitherto unavailable at its modest price point.”
Hi-Fi World, August 2011
Origin Live Aurora MK4
ราคา 66,000 บาท (ไม่รวมโทนอาร์ม)
Turntable Performance
The Aurora Mk4 is an affordable evolution of the much more expensive high performance Sovereign deck. In fact the relatively low price bears no relation to the stunning performance that this deck is capable of .
The Aurora is acclaimed first and foremost because of it’s musicality. In spite of being lowest in the range, it inherits design features from our very high end decks, acclaimed among the best in the world regardless of price. Remarkably, it offers true high end performance, comfortably outperforming more expensive decks–even when fitted with inexpensive tonearms and cartridges.
Performance hallmarks are superb transparency, realistic timing, tangible soundstaging and accurate imaging. The Aurora’s inherent musicality and smooth tonal balance guarantee many years of listening pleasure.
The Aurora MK4 turntable follows in the steps of its award-winning predecessors, but with super accurate speed control and significantly increased performance
The Aurora MK4 เป็นแท่นเครื่องเล่นแผ่นเสียงคุณภาพสูงในราคาที่เป็นเจ้าของได้ แต่การออกแบบและการผลิตยังคงพิถีพิถันเช่นเดียวกับรุ่น Sovereign ซึ่งเป็นรุ่นสูงสุด The Aurora ถือว่าเป็นแท่นไฮเอนราคาประหยัดเท่าที่มีในท้องตลาด ซึ่งแม้ว่าจะนำไปติดตั้งร่วมกับโทนอาร์มและหัวเข็มราคาเริ่มต้นก็ยังคงให้น้ำเสียงที่ดี มีความเป็นดนตรีที่จับต้องได้ ให้ความกว้าง-ลึกของเวที ชิ้นดนตรีและเสียงร้องชัดเจน คุ้มค่าแก่การลงทุนเพื่อความพึงใจนานปี และจุดเด่น The Aurora นั่นคือมอเตอร์ DC ที่ควบคุมความเร็วรอบได้แม่นยำและมีกระแสไฟรบกวนหัวเข็มน้อยกว่ามอเตอร์ AC ที่ใช้ในเครื่องเล่นอื่นๆทั่วไป
The Aurora MK4 ได้รับรางวัลมากมายจากนิตยสารเครื่องเสียงที่มีชื่อเสียงของประเทศอังกฤษ
The Aurora MK4 with Grado Gold
“It’s very hard to think what else you could ask of this… Its build is excellent at the price, its sonic performance is simply superb, and there’s certainly nothing wrong its looks either”
Hi-Fi Choice
“We had the Aurora playing over the weekend in store and everyone was extremely impressed with the sound it was producing for the cost – I have to say it is amazing value and puts certain other brands to shame at twice the cost.”
Rayleigh Hi-Fi
Music Fountain จำหน่ายผลิตภัณฑ์ของ Origin Live ในราคาย่อมเยา พร้อมคำแนะนำที่จะช่วยให้ท่าน
ได้รับสิ่งที่คุ้มค่าที่สุดกับการเล่นแผ่นเสียง ... Enjoy Vinyl
