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ORIGIN LIVE TURNTABLE BEARING OIL
There are many turntable
oils on the market that do little or nothing to enhance performance. It is
estimated that you could easily spend an extra £200 to £500 on a cartridge and
not get the level of improvement possible by changing to Origin Live record
player Oil. This oil cannot be used on Rega,
Technics, Michell Engineering, Pink Triangle or decks
with inverted bearings.
The Most Important
Component In Your Bearing
The theory is that your
bearing needs to be vibration-free and frictionless – in reality, bearings
suffer from a multitude of low level vibration modes and non audible noise
which is clearly measurable. When you recognise this noise and movement is
amplified thousands of times by your cartridge and amplifier, these factors
suddenly become absolutely critical to obtain greater performance.
What is not generally
realised is that the type of oil used in the bearing can be the most
influential component of the entire assembly. It is reasonable to assume that a
turntable manufacturer has carefully researched the oil to use in his
particular design and to depart from this is risky. The truth is that there are
thousands of oils and additives on the market which means the research
necessary is well beyond the time constraints of most manufacturers. As a
result, their turntable oils are nothing special and neither do they receive
much attention–they serve to protect the bearing and lower friction, but the
massive scope for performance improvement persists unrealised.
Turntable Bearing Oil
Influences Sound Quality
Origin Live Turntable Oil
will simply improve every aspect of your music. Treble in particular undergoes
a complete transformation in purity, voices increase in realism and presence.
Other improvements include increased transparency and detail with less masking.
Transient speed is increased most noticeably in the bass which does not lag
behind as it does with other oils. These are improvements you would expect from
a bearing which rotates much more smoothly with less friction.
The Fundamentals of a Perfect Turntable Oil
Your bearing needs an oil perfectly suited for the particular conditions that
exist in a turntable bearing. Above all it must have an
extremely strong protective film strength along with ultra-low friction.
The results of such an oil are spectacular in terms of
sound quality.
Proven performance
We claim an improvement
over all known turntable brand oils or your money back. This oil is proven to
reduce friction, bearing noise and vibration significantly. So much so, that a
while ago Hi-Fi News magazine found one of our
bearings to produce the lowest noise level they have ever measured on any
turntable bearing.
Compatible With All Turntables
Owners of all types of
deck have reported great results from using Origin Live Turntable Oil. Examples
include the Linn LP12–with their tightly toleranced
PTFE liners, inverted bearings with spiral grooves and metal-to-metal bearings.
What About
Additives?
Various claims are made
about graphite, molybdenum and PTFE, and it is easy to be misled by theoretical
ideas which are just that–great in theory. We have exhaustively tested
countless mixes and combinations to discover that these additives do not
provide the answers to the ultimate turntable oil. The wrong additives in a
turntable bearing are counter-productive although they may slightly improve
what is a non-optimal oil in the first place.
A Great Investment
The performance increase
delivered by this highly specialist oil means that it is easily worth £100 per
bottle in terms of sound quality improvement. Origin Live Turntable bearing oil
suits all decks with fully oil immersed bearings such as: Ariston,
Basis, Clearaudio, Kuzma,
Linn LP12, Manticore, Oracle, Project, Rega, Rock, Systemdeck, Thorens, Voyd, VPI and Well
Tempered.