Origin Live Ground Anchor Grounding Box for Tonearms and Phono Preamps Launched at £545

There’s also an interesting philosophical split between conventional star-grounding dogma and what Origin Live appears to be pursuing here. Instead of hard-tying everything to the phono preamp’s ground post, the box introduces a passive intermediary that can decouple noisy chassis references from the cartridge loop. Puritan’s influence shows in the emphasis on RF and EMI behavior rather than simple DC continuity—less about resistance figures, more about how high-frequency energy is encouraged to exit the system without creating new loops. In practice, this aligns with forum chatter around step-up transformers, where users often report that SUTs expose grounding inconsistencies more ruthlessly than active MC stages due to their wide bandwidth and susceptibility to airborne interference.

The more nuanced takeaway is that the Ground Anchor isn’t positioned as a universal “noise killer,” but as a way of normalizing grounding behavior across mismatched components. Systems mixing different arm manufacturers, aftermarket cables, and phono stages with idiosyncratic earth schemes are often where low-level hash and hum live on. By centralizing and controlling how those grounds reference 0V, the design aims to stabilize the electrical environment the cartridge sees—less grit in transients, more coherent spatial cues, and that oft-discussed sense of calm behind the music that tends to separate merely quiet vinyl rigs from genuinely sorted ones.