Its my Miller Carbon table. Its built around the Teres bearing and platter, with the superb Verus rim drive motor. The base is made from a BDR Source Shelf, with another large round threaded "nut" made from Source Shelf holds the bearing. The bearing is thus completely encased in Source Shelf. The three legs are Pucks and Cones screwed directly into the base. The arm mounts onto a base of Shelf. That's three layers of Source Shelf, plus the Pucks and Cones. A photo taken with my old Graham arm can be seen here
http://www.teresaudio.com/fame/cmiller.jpg
I didn't mention the turntable because its a subject worth a story and review all its own. It began with a Basis 2001. When I replaced the Basis motor with the first early Teres motor and say how much better that was I decided to build the Miller Carbon. So take as a bench mark the Basis 2001, and know even just with the motor upgrade its a huge leap above the Basis. Then moving the Teres motor to the Miller Carbon, that was an even bigger gap up. The next step was the upgrade to the Teres Verus motor, another big gap up. This was all with a Benz on the Graham arm, so being consistent there means all the improvements were coming from the table and nothing else.
Granted a Basis 2001 was never the best Basis, but imagine not one or two steps better but three, and not just steps but leaps. I don't know how to say it, three huge advances in noise floor reduction, dynamic and bass foundation, 3D imaging, just everything across the board. Another way to get some idea, I also use a record clamp made from a Shelf. Walked it around at CES one year A/B-ing it with a lot of sometimes very expensive record clamps. Never did hear one do what this one does. And it works even better at home. I made a "washer" out of carbon fiber. The washer fits around the spindle and is just thick enough to raise the record very slightly above the platter. Tightening the clamp then actually presses the record down onto the platter across its entire surface clear out to the edge. This is so effective that when the clamp is removed the record acts as if it is vacuumed to the platter for a second, until air gets in and it pops up!
Bottom line, I would not be afraid to put this up against anything out there, at least under $100k. In fact from what I have heard some of them even at that level would not do so well!
Same goes for the Origin Live arm. Remember the Graham was one of the very best arms available at the time. Mine had all the upgrades then available. The Origin Live Conqueror utterly crushed it. Not even close. Not one in one thousand would say they were even close. Just a whole different level of performance. Best of all is that these improvements were not just technical, but the kind of thing that is hard to describe but gives you that tingly this is real hair on the back of your neck foot just starts tapping feeling. Origin Live are in the very rare category of components that do that.
http://www.teresaudio.com/fame/cmiller.jpg
I didn't mention the turntable because its a subject worth a story and review all its own. It began with a Basis 2001. When I replaced the Basis motor with the first early Teres motor and say how much better that was I decided to build the Miller Carbon. So take as a bench mark the Basis 2001, and know even just with the motor upgrade its a huge leap above the Basis. Then moving the Teres motor to the Miller Carbon, that was an even bigger gap up. The next step was the upgrade to the Teres Verus motor, another big gap up. This was all with a Benz on the Graham arm, so being consistent there means all the improvements were coming from the table and nothing else.
Granted a Basis 2001 was never the best Basis, but imagine not one or two steps better but three, and not just steps but leaps. I don't know how to say it, three huge advances in noise floor reduction, dynamic and bass foundation, 3D imaging, just everything across the board. Another way to get some idea, I also use a record clamp made from a Shelf. Walked it around at CES one year A/B-ing it with a lot of sometimes very expensive record clamps. Never did hear one do what this one does. And it works even better at home. I made a "washer" out of carbon fiber. The washer fits around the spindle and is just thick enough to raise the record very slightly above the platter. Tightening the clamp then actually presses the record down onto the platter across its entire surface clear out to the edge. This is so effective that when the clamp is removed the record acts as if it is vacuumed to the platter for a second, until air gets in and it pops up!
Bottom line, I would not be afraid to put this up against anything out there, at least under $100k. In fact from what I have heard some of them even at that level would not do so well!
Same goes for the Origin Live arm. Remember the Graham was one of the very best arms available at the time. Mine had all the upgrades then available. The Origin Live Conqueror utterly crushed it. Not even close. Not one in one thousand would say they were even close. Just a whole different level of performance. Best of all is that these improvements were not just technical, but the kind of thing that is hard to describe but gives you that tingly this is real hair on the back of your neck foot just starts tapping feeling. Origin Live are in the very rare category of components that do that.