Fit The Tonearm; Maintaining Your Deck - Origin live Calypso MK3 Manual

the room may warm up quickly but the metal in the
turntable takes a lot longer. For this reason it is not worth
constantly changing speed settings for absolute accuracy.
The ear is more tolerant to music running fast than it is
to slow. For this reason it's best setting the deck to run
very slightly fast at your average room temperature.
It's worth explaining that absolute speed accuracy is easy
to achieve at the expense of sound quality. The AC
motors, common to most decks are not prone to speed
drift - however they do inject a great deal of vibration.
This, sadly is never measured in technical reviews or
people would be a lot wiser. The subjective effect of
vibration is highly detrimental to sound quality when
compared to fractional speed drift. For this reason we
prefer to offer superior sound quality rather than the
flawed illusion of technical perfection.
Further to this it's worth adding that we've experimented
with highly sophisticated encoder speed controls (£2000
trade cost) and found that although they hold speed with
unerring accuracy, the sound and dynamics of a more
subtle approach is far superior.

Fit the tonearm

All newer Origin Live arms have built in VTA
adjustment and can be fitted directly to the arm board as
illustrated below.
If you have an older Origin Live or Rega tone-arm which
has a threaded base but no vta adjustment, you can fit a
threaded VTA adjuster. The adjuster must be threaded
onto the base of the arm first and oriented such that the
flange is uppermost.
Insert your arm through the hole in the arm board.
Next fit the cork washer followed by the large clamping
nut as shown in the diagram on this page.
Lastly fit the tone-arm cables through the cable clip on
the underside of the deck. This improves performance
slightly and safeguards the cables from stressing their
joint at the arm base in the event of being "tugged". The
cables should not be tight but form a gentle loop.
If clamping the cable is undesirable you can omit this
step.
We will cover setting the arm to exactly the correct
height later as you need to do a number of other things
first.
You should refer to your tone-arm instructions for
detailed set up of the arm and cartridge alignment.
Pass the arm cable through the cable clip supplied and
fasten in position with the M5 bolt located in the
threaded hole near the rear foot. Leave a slight droop on
the cable so that it isn't "tight". The bolt is helpful to
minimize cable vibration.
Note – Silver Hybrid cable is relatively thick but both
left and right channels will fit trough one of the cable
clips supplied.

Maintaining your deck

It aids performance to clean all running surfaces every 3
months or so with mentholated or surgical spirit but do
not use this on the belt.
Belts should only be cleaned with water as rubber care
products can leave behind a slippery residue.
To clean the deck, use a damp soft lint free cloth and
wipe gently – if you have grease marks etc then you can
use a general-purpose anti-smear, car window cleaner
such as Auto-glym "Fast glass", but only if necessary.
Wax furniture polish is to be avoided . Do not spray
directly on the turntable as it may clog up the cartridge
internals etc but rather spray onto a soft polishing cloth
and then use it on the turntable. Do not use tissue paper
or kitchen cleaning paper towels as paper is abrasive and
can put faint scratches in the polished surface.
If minor abrasions occur on the surface, you can remove
them using a proper plastic scratch remover polish such
as "Xerapol" by E.V.I of Germany or "Plastic Clean &
Shine by Novus inc of USA. Avoid Car and other