TURNTABLE
It takes a bit of chutzpah to name a brand-new turntable a ‘Classic’ but anyone who’s met Music Hall’s founder, owner and highly outspoken spokesperson, Roy Hall, will already know that he was not only at the very front of the line when chutzpah was being handed out, but that he circled back for a second helping.
Mind you, he’s pretty much on the money when it comes to his latest creation’s name, because it has all the features that were most prized on the ‘classic’ turntables of yesteryear, built by the likes of Garrard, Acoustic Research, BSR and others. Features such as automatic stop and tonearm lift at the end of an LP (known then as ‘semi-automatic’ because the tonearm was simply lifted, and not moved back to its rest on the tonearm post) and a removable headshell.
But perhaps the most important reason for calling this new Music Hall a ‘Classic’ is simply down to its appearance. Finished in a walnut veneer, and coming
