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An ultimate turntable for ultimate sound. Voyager’s groundbreaking performance is the pinnacle of over 30 years of research and development. It combines our time-honoured techniques with masses of new experimentation. If ever there was a perfect deck, this is it.
 
This performance is only bettered by the Voyager S-version. Although almost identical in appearance to the Voyager, the S version adds a multitude of performance-enhancing refinements under the hood, including different alloys, many additional layers of damping components, extra profiling details, and improved power supply, bearing and platter. The results of these cumulative upgrades to many components are immediately obvious in the listening.
 
REVIEWS
‘“Light solidity” sounds like an oxymoron, but it neatly sums up the sound of the Voyager and Renown arm. What it actually means is it delivers that rare combination of top-end airiness and midrange clarity coupled with a powerful, almost structural bass definition. This combines to make voices and instruments at once lithe and articulate and rooted in a three-dimensional space. In truth, however, you could comfortably point to any aspect of musical performance and find the Origin Live duo at (or very close) to the zenith of turntable ability.’ 

Hi-Fi+ – Alan Sircom, 2023
‘The Voyager S turntable is a pure masterpiece. The performance is unbelievable, it’s hard to express the feelings.’
Vladimir – HIK Audio
 
Features
Mk5 Motor Power Supply
A unique power supply drives twin motors, which produce powerful smooth rotation of the decoupled sub-platter whilst maintaining very low levels of vibration. The drive belt consists of a low stretch, high grip material which is now widely recognised (in the form of our “upgrade belt”) as a significant advance over ground neoprene belts.
 
2 x DC100 Motor
The Voyager motors are arranged explicitly for the smoothest rotation with the minimum vibration transmission to the platter. These high-grade motors demonstrate the powerful, smooth running needed in a good turntable motor. Ironless cores eliminate eddy currents, resulting in low “clogging, ” low vibration, and speed stability.
 
Belt
The belt is manufactured in house using special material which increases grip and reduces stretch under instantaneous loading, using a unique material which dramatically improves on widely used neoprene rubber  – benefits include increased dynamics and deeper bass performance.
 
Multi-Layer Platter
Traditional heavyweight platters have a number of problems.
They tend to “ring” for a long time. In other words, their resonance appears in the music as colouration, artifacts and delays in note decay, which produces timing issues. Most notably, the effect is usually heard in heightened details in a slightly muddied mix and slow bass.
 
Heavy-weight platters reflect vibration from the cartridge back into the record. To combat this, designers select various interface materials in the form of mats to isolate the record from the platter. However a single mat material will only deal with a limited band of frequencies and is ultimately a very incomplete solution resulting in tonal imbalances, lack of harmonic texture and poor transparency.
 
The Voyager platter uses intricate and unique mechanisms to ensure that all frequencies are transmitted out of the record without returning. This seemingly impossible task is only possible with advanced experience of how micro-vibration behaves. Origin Live is known for its innovative approach to this problem for over 3 decades. This is exemplified in the superb performance of the Voyager with it’s multi-layer platter designed to transmit energy at all frequencies without the reflection problems encountered in many platter designs. The MLP layers work to diffuse surface resonance in the platter through vibrational interference, resulting in musical texture free from resonant artefacts and as close to the original recording as possible.
 
Voyager Bearing
The Bearing in the standard Voyager is the culmination of two decades of development. Nearly twice the height and width of the bearings in the rest of our range, this bearing yields extremely low levels of friction and vibration. Manufactured in-house to micron precision, the Voyager bearing has a large diameter and height for absolute rigidity and special oil for the smoothest revolution you’ve ever heard. One reviewer commented that he could identify no difference in timing to that of a high-end direct drive turntable.
 
Materials and Decoupling
Key components are made from highly specified alloys to achieve the highest energy transmission speed and low ringing effects. Material composition, profiling, and the right damping methods are critical to accomplish this. Energy is controlled by a series of shock absorption mechanisms created from long experience in controlling microshock waves.
 
You will notice that the Voyager has many seemingly insignificant details. For example, hole profiles milled into large structures to lighten the structure and part shapes are all carefully derived from experience in structural analysis – vital for the correct management of micro-vibrations. This is not the brute force approach adopted by some spectacular decks where energy reflection seems to produce a lack of musicality and subtle mistiming in micro dynamics.
 
Voyager-S
The Voyager-S version shares the same overall appearance as the Voyager. However, the S version adds many performance-enhancing refinements under the hood, including different alloys,  additional damping layers throughout its structure, extra profiling details, and improved power supply, bearing and platter. The results of these cumulative upgrades to many components are immediately obvious in the listening. The S-version goes much further in terms of sonic performance and no compromise engineering than the Voyager, but it is a delight that few will hear and none will rival.
This turntable truly represents the best that Origin Live have to offer. From the relentless development that started in a Southampton garage in 1986 to the mastery of our in-house CNC manufacture, the Voyager-S is the product of decades of award-winning breakthroughs in vinyl. Get in touch to learn more about our ultimate expression of the turntable.
 
Specifications
Platter:
Multiple material layers dampen all frequencies, avoiding the tonal imbalances of inferior platters.
Machined from solid aerospace alloy: minimal flexure and high-speed energy dissipation.
Complex profiles disrupt resonance patterns.
Shock-absorbing devices decouple vibration.
Motor vibration is blocked from the platter through a separated lower platter.
 
Plinth:
Advanced decoupling techniques to avoid structural resonance
Coating damps high-frequency artefacts
Isolating and damping techniques employed in 3 support pillars
 
General:
33.33 & 45rpm speed
Belt drive on Twin DC motors
Up to three 9-12″ tonearms can be mounted
Customizable arm boards for any tonearm
Rigid profiled platter for minimal vibration and high speed energy dissipation.
Overall Weight 27.8kg