Origin Live Conqueror MK3c Tonearm

David McCallum has posted a review of the Origin Live Conqueror MK3c tonearm ($3700) at The Inner Ear. his conclusions:

“I’ve now spent between 60 and 80 hours listening to Origin Live’s Conqueror MK3C tonearm. After that time my primary observation relates to musical coherence and how everything just fits together. I find myself thinking about how we aren’t supposed to take music apart when listening, breaking the compositions down into small pieces. For reviewers, the first and easiest instinct is to dissect in order to describe what we hear when listening. Bass, treble, midrange, dynamics, power, smooth, clinical, engaging, musical, warm, detailed… These are all words one might use to describe sound. However, unless you’re trying to learn an instrument or compose your own song, I don’t believe our first point of engagement with music is with its individual parts. Rather, we engage with it as a whole. The Conqueror tonearm plays music coherently. Good music sounds beautiful. Good music that’s also been recorded well sounds spectacular. The Conqueror MK3C performed well in all three configurations and with both cartridges. I’m impressed by the arm’s flexibility, ease of set up and most importantly its sound.”

You can read the full review here.