Roy Hall founded Music Hall in 1985 on a single proposition: that analog playback should be available at every level without the engineering being compromised on the way down. Forty years on, the MMF series is the result, and it is one of the more coherent ranges in audio — the same ideas, executed further at each step up.
The signature is the multi-plinth construction. Rather than mounting everything to one chassis, Music Hall separates the platter and tonearm platform from the feet, the wiring, and the motor, so vibration from one cannot reach the others. The MMF-9.3 uses three plinths. The MMF-11.3 uses four, with thermoplastic elastomer damping between them, a freestanding and fully isolated motor assembly, two microprocessor-controlled synchronous motors driving a flywheel, and adjustable magnetic-levitation feet. The upper decks turn on an inverted ceramic main bearing, and carry the 9cc Evolution tonearm — a one-piece carbon fibre arm on hardened Swiss ABEC 7 ball races, wired in high-purity copper.
The Stealth is the exception that proves the range takes its own engineering seriously. It is Music Hall's first direct-drive turntable, using a brushless low-torque motor holding speed to within three tenths of a percent, with an S-shaped statically balanced arm, a detachable headshell, and an Ortofon 2M Blue fitted at the factory.
Cartridges come from Ortofon and Goldring depending on the model, and Music Hall fits its own Spirit cartridge to the Classic. The company also makes phono stages, integrated amplifiers, disc players, and headphone amplifiers.
A Music Hall deck into a Moonriver or Rega integrated is an honest first system with nothing to apologise for — book a demonstration and hear where the MMF series starts.
