Music Hall Classic

The Classic is a good name for this turntable. It makes your records sound good, thanks to a factory-installed Music Hall Spirit cartridge, and it looks good, too. It features a solid base in dark walnut, and adjustable vibration-damping feet. It's super-convenient to set up and use, thanks to a built-in phono preamp that lets you connect directly to your receiver or a pair of powered speakers. The 'table is also semi-automatic, which is a very handy feature. Read on to learn a bit more about that. I usually use this space to tell you about my hands- on experience with a product, but this is a different kind of story. When my colleague Jeff Miller and I attended the 2019 Capital Audiofest in Washington, D.C., we spotted the Music Hall booth almost immediately. To our great delight, company founder Roy Hall was there, and he gave us a personal demonstration of the Classic. He was proud of the sound quality, good looks, and solid build of the 'table, but he really wanted to show off its convenient semi-autom...