"We can't recommend this Origin Live deck highly enough: it has the power to stop a herd of wildebeest with its authority - yet it can also bring a grown man to his knees in tears..." read more

-What Hi Fi Magazine

"I would recommend this turntable and arm without reservation to other music lovers looking for a turntable or arm upgrade. This will be my final turntable but one that I know I will be very happy with." read more

John Kopec

The award winning Sovereign deck is a favourite with reviewers. This turntable is more highly specified than lower decks in the Origin Live range with improved decoupling of the main bearing and armboard. The plinth has high mass and includes a special energy dissipating design. The vastly superior motor and power supply improves the performance of this deck even further.

The Sovereign also comes in a dual armboard version. Please see the options tab for more info.

£3995

Features & Specification

Fabulous Style
Chrome plated pods, chrome assemblies with black plinth and frost finish or white platter make this deck a design showpiece.
High Grade Parts
High mass plinth using low resonance sandwich construction.
Triple plinth decoupling.
Low resonance high inertia platter.
Platter de-coupled with an inert sub-platter.
Highly specified bearing.
Special high grade oil is employed in the bearing.
Rigid sub-chassis with low resonance and unique centre point support arrangement along with damping devices.
High mass and specially damped motor housing.
Power supply
The new, regulated Ultra power supply feeding the motor is load compensating and stable across a wide range of temperatures. It uses more sophisticated circuitry, higher grade components and a top grade transformer. Speed control is switched electronically between 33 rpm and 45 rpm.
Setting up
There is nothing to go "out of tune" on the Sovereign. The deck is a non-suspended design using our unique single point cantilever suspension system, which requires no setting up and fuss free. VTA arm adjustment is provided for Origin Live and Rega arms, which makes setting the arm height much easier.
Dimensions
450mm wide, 380mm deep, 160mm height.
Weight is 32kg
Heavyweight platter is an additional 2.1kg.

Options

Dual Armboard

The deck can be ordered with a dual armboard. Click the image to view a larger version.

All prices quoted in GBP	UK Retail	Export Retail
Dual Armboard Sovereign	4260	3550

12" Arm Chassis

	UK Retail	Export Retail
Sovereign with 12" Arm Chassis	4260	3550
12" Arm Chassis for Sovereign (Individual)	395	329.17

Upgrade Transformer

	UK Retail	Export Retail
Upgrade Transformer with decks	185	154.17
Upgrade Transformer alone	199	165.83

Upgrade Platter Mat

Origin Live special upgrade platter mat - a highly cost effective addition to add further transparency, depth and dynamics. Please specify your deck in the shop notes when you purchase this mat

	UK Retail	Export Retail
Platter Mat	39.95	33.33

Heavyweight Platter

This option is a special combination of materials, designed to increase mass without incurring the penalty of increased energy storage and slow resonant decay. These are well known problems identified in most high mass platters. However the heavyweight platter uses a unique combination of laminated materials and sandwich construction to dissipate energy quickly and effectively. To produce such a platter is not easy. It is effectively like manufacturing 5 platters which must be free from accumalated distortion. Benefits are immediately obvious in deeper more powerfull bass, increased dynamics throughout the frequency spectrum and a greater sense of solidity / realism.

	UK Retail	Export Retail
Heavyweight platter exchange	510	425

Finish

Mirror finish black is the standard plinth finish however we offer clear, frosted and polished white as other options.

	UK Retail	Export Retail
Frosted Finish	155	129.17
Clear Finish	155	129.17
Polished White Finish	155	129.17

Turntable oil

Origin Live turntable oil is probably THE best oil available for turntables. Our quest to design the perfect bearing has meant trying literaly hundreds of oils and additives over the last 20 years.
Click here for more information

	UK Retail	Export Retail
Turntable oil	12.00	9.60

Different Arm Fitting

The deck can accomodate most arms by simply changing the sub-chassis plate. Subchassis plates are available for SME, Linn, Graham, Hadcock arms for an additional £100 as these are specials - All Roksan arms can be fitted using an adaptor at £25. Arms not listed in the above can be quoted individualy.

Reviews

"Overall fit and finish are superlative, the styling speaks for itself, and sonically, the deck has stellar abilities.How stellar? Well, the first slab of vinyl to hit the deck had us giggling like helium-addled hyenas. That soon turned to awe as the Sovereign revealed its true colours, leaving us with jaws so slack that any self-respecting redneck would have been proud. With all forms of music it remains effortlessly composed, giving tremendous insight into the original recording's emotion.Detail levels stun, revealing subtleties we had never noticed even in some of our personal faves. The separation of instruments is fantastic too: the sound appears to be huge and beautifully spread through the vast soundstage, while bass is deep, tuneful and punchy...We can't recommend this Origin Live deck highly enough:it has the power to stop a herd of wildebeest with its authority - yet it can also bring a grown man to his knees in tears..." read more
-What Hi Fi Magazine
"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!..."
-IMAGE HIFI July/August 2004 Nr.58, Dirk Sommer
Sovereign awarded "Best Analogue Product" in Italy by "Fedeltà del Suono" magazine.
"In essence, this is a turntable/arm combination which flies close to the ultimate in terms performance level. I cannot (perhaps due to the limited time available for the test), detect any serious, medium or even small flaws. I'd like to discover more, given additional time, not so much to run a witch hunt, as to realise the true extent of it's ability to provide musical pleasure.Meanwhile, the Sovereign sits at the pinnacle of current turntable production unless you pay crazy money." read more

-Fedeltà del Suono Magazine
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