Awarded
"most wanted component of 2005" by STEREO TIMES
"The arm transcends
its artificial mechanical aspect and seems a part of nature. These
are heady regions to inhabit.
The Origin Live Conqueror arm is another masterpiece from the fertile
mind of Mark Baker. It merits the highest of recommendations
and is the obvious choice for Most Wanted Component of the Year.
Simply, the Conqueror is in a class by itself".
Stereo
Times May 05
"2005 World award" - By HI FI WORLD
“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. But
the
three excel not only in spatial recreation. No matter if you
play old blues records, grooving Jazz or big orchestras, the
music goes
straight under your skin. Even with the most exacting test records
it was absolutely impossible, not to get caught up emotionally
and
to only analyse the sound reproduction. If there is program material
the Origin Live loves most, it is fast and percussive music.
Here
the combination could present their speed best. 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!”
Review IMAGE HIFI July/August 2004 Nr.58,
Dirk Sommer:
"The Conqueror in my mind is THE FINAL
TONEARM: I decided already to sell my SME V and the Graham 2.0 has
been sold to UK already. The reason is the sound (or speak about
no sound) the arm is providing. Definitely hard to explain the amount
of improvement I achieved with this masterpiece of engineering."
B Timmerman, Germany
"it was a shock to find out that the years with the SME were
lost years. Your product betters the SME in each aspect. It is
outstanding!"
Andreas Winter -
Bochum, Germany
"Arguably the very best tonearm yet made - a startlingly capable
all rounder with none of the vices or quirks of rival super-arms" Hi
Fi World review
Selected by Garrard as the best arm they've heard for their review
of the new 501 model which won reference status in the German audiophile
magazine
AUDIO.
"the singularly most addicting piece of gear I have ever heard" 10
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