Why choose between unipivot and gimbal when you can have the best of both? Origin Live uses a hybrid design that combines the best of both methods into arms of outstanding performance.
There's a lot more to turntables and arms than mere design. More even than how they sound. They're intricate mechanical devices you have to carefully set up and handle. And look at. All these things matter. Don't get sucked into the importance of one at the expense of the others.
Give you a couple examples. Graham makes a really good unipivot. It has a detachable arm wand. Which is cool. But by far the best thing about the Graham is its designed so you can remove the arm wand and use a special jig that makes cartridge alignment so easy and precise you have to wonder why everyone else doesn't do it this way.
Well, I'll tell you why. Because the Graham has about a dozen extra connections the signal must go through compared to a direct hard wired arm like Origin Live. Turns out, and you only learn this after spending a whole crap load of money, turns out the best method with arms and cartridges is as few connections as possible.
Notice I haven't even gone into any of the technical reasons pro or con on unipivots per se. Point I want to make is when choosing an arm or table to consider everything. Forest for the trees scooter, forest for the trees.
