If your phono stage is poor then you are best off budgeting proportionally.
Consider a balanced investment across components in the front end of your system.
in the long run, this represents significant savings every time you need to replace your cartridge.
Owning a better arm means you achieve better performance whilst running much cheaper cartridges.
You get significantly better performance £ for £ upgrading an arm than you would by investing the same on a Cartridge.
Better arms reduce record wear due to reduced “chatter”.
There is no point at which you will stop hearing the difference a better arm makes, regardless of your system.
This question is more involved and the following points may help in coming to your own conclusions. Secondly, how much should be invested in an arm due to the law of diminishing returns? Testing reveals that a poor compliance match with a better arm design will track and perform much better than a lesser arm with a perfect compliance match. Compliance matching is audible but of relatively minor importance compared to other factors in arm performance. Unlike many arms, there are no synergy or compatibility issues to consider.Ĭompliance: If you wish to optimise your cartridge compliance with the arm, we offer headshell weights of 2, 5 and 10 grams. The answer is simply that all Origin Live arms work well with all decks and cartridges.
Spares & Upgrades for Origin Live Productsįirstly, which arm is best for my particular deck and/or cartridge?.