Origin Live Voyager Turntable

Description

Origin Live Voyager & Voyager S Turntable

The Voyager and Voyager-S version share the same overall form, however, the Voyager-S is made bespoke from a much more costly alloy, and tuned to our most exacting standards. The S-version goes much further in terms of sonic performance and no compromise engineering than the Voyager, but it is a delight that few will hear, and none will rival.

This turntable truly represents the best that Origin Live have to offer. From the relentless development that started in a Southampton garage in 1986, to the mastery of our in-house CNC manufacture, the Voyager-S is the product of decades of award-winning breakthroughs in vinyl. Get in touch to find out more about our ultimate expression of the turntable.

REVIEWS FOR THE ORIGIN LIVE VOYAGER

‘“Light solidity” sounds like an oxymoron, but it neatly sums up the sound of the Voyager and Renown arm. What it actually means is it delivers that rare combination of top-end airiness and midrange clarity coupled with a powerful, almost structural bass definition. This combines to make voices and instruments at once lithe and articulate and rooted in a three-dimensional space. In truth, however, you could comfortably point to any aspect of musical performance and find the Origin Live duo at (or very close) to the zenith of turntable ability.’ Read the full review >
Hi-Fi+ – Alan Sircom, 2023

‘The Voyager S turntable is a pure masterpiece. The performance is unbelievable, it’s hard to express the feelings.’
Vladimir – HIK Audio

Features

Belt

The belt is manufactured in-house using special material which increases grip and reduces stretch under instantaneous loading, using a unique material which dramatically improves on widely used neoprene rubber – benefits include increased dynamics and deeper bass performance.

Multi-Layer S Platter

Traditional heavyweight platters are inadequate as they reflect vibration from the cartridge to the record. Crude felt mats can only transmit certain frequencies which will cause timing problems. The Voyager platter uses intricate and unique mechanisms with the aim to create the equivalent of mechanical diodes, a surface that captures and diffuses vibrations away from the vinyl surface.

The Voyager uses a multi-layer platter designed to transmit energy at all frequencies without the reflection problems encountered in many platter designs. The MLP layers work to diffuse surface resonance in the platter through vibrational interference, resulting in a texture in the music freed from resonant artifacts, and as close to the original recording as possible.

Voyager Bearing

The Bearing in the standard Voyager is the culmination of two decades of development. Twice the height and width of the bearings in the rest of our range, this bearing yields extremely low levels of friction and vibration. Manufactured in-house to micron precision, the Voyager bearing has a large diameter and height for absolute rigidity and special oil for the smoothest revolution you’ve ever heard.

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High Performance Turntables Produce the Ultimate Sound Quality

The record player still reigns supreme in terms of performance. Experts agree that leading turntables provide a more satisfying musical experience than any digital counterparts. Unlike digital streaming & CD, there seems no limitation on the musical information that turntables can extract from vinyl. In recent years, advances in some turntables have caused the gulf between digital performance and vinyl to widen even further. Origin Live draws together many long-established principles of high-end turntable design, along with advanced innovations, to reveal just how much the vinyl medium is capable of.

Why invest in a quality turntable?

If you are unfamiliar with Hi-Fi you may be unaware of the major sound quality differences between one turntable and another. There are over 800 different decks on the market. Faced with such a colossal choice, many buyers take the shortcut and assume “if it looks good, and has a good review, it must be good”. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. To its credit, the Hi-Fi press has long extolled the importance of a good turntable for high sound quality. If the source signal is degraded in the first place, everything else in the Hi-Fi Chain can only exaggerate the problem. It is important to choose your turntable based on its sound quality, which comes from its engineering and design.

Here at Origin Live, we make almost all of our components in our own workshop in the UK, this means we are in total control of the materials, quality control, and design of our products. You won’t find any chipboard, plywood, or flimsy components in these turntables. Using mass effective design in our bearing houses, plinths, arm boards and platters, all possible areas where jitter and vibration can be removed have been carefully considered. Through relentless development, we have selected materials that produce the natural, uninhibited tone from your vinyl.

Turntable Differences Are Greater Than Any Other Item Of Hi-Fi Equipment

CD players sound different to one another, but not a lot in comparison to turntables. Turntables have more influence on the sound of a system than almost any other item of Hi-Fi equipment and the differences between them are massive. A better turntable will improve the clarity, dynamics and ability to follow every strand of the music plus other aspects too numerous to mention. Gone is blurred, woolly bass and general confusion in the sound. Better turntables also have increased pitch stability adding a sense of sub-conscious sense of rhythm, security and confidence to your listening experience.

Rewards Of Higher Investment

A cheap £165 turntable will fall well short of CD performance, whereas a good £1500 turntable should outperform CD. The pursuit of the ultimate sound goes well beyond CD quality however. Turntables can improve a lot further with the right choices in equipment, and often this involves higher investment.

No one could blame you for being sceptical that a truly high-performance turntable is worth the investment. It’s usually only by hearing a direct comparison between two similar-looking decks, that the penny drops. The difference in musical cohesion, dynamics and ability to follow music effortlessly is simply jaw-dropping. It leaves one wondering how such massive differences can possibly exist when outward appearances can look so similar. Usually, this is down to materials, design and engineering. We explain further in our article: what makes the best turntable.

The conclusion is that it’s worth hearing turntable differences so you know what’s possible in terms of sound quality.