{"id":695,"date":"2016-11-19T10:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2017-01-07T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T16:51:39","slug":"i-try-a-music-hall-mmf-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/i-try-a-music-hall-mmf-7-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I try a Music Hall MMF 7.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"x_null\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/bfc2786a7c06fd6da2ba6bb15\/images\/af4d2d5f-aed3-47e2-9e18-aa9dc101bc54.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"193\" align=\"none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nBecause of the good Stereophile review I&#8217;ve set up a Music Hall MMF-7.3 turntable at home. It comes with an Ortofon 2M Bronze, which I listened to and then put on my Quintet Bronze ( one of the new Ortofon moving coil cartridges). The 2M was good, but the Quintet\u00a0was clearly better, but naturally for more money. Oh the curse of better costing more.<\/p>\n<p>One point of the comparison was to see if I can sell off my old table (VPI HW19 MKII with SME 309 arm) without stepping down in sound. A comparison was necessary. Just changing\u00a0the the cartridge wasn&#8217;t enough: to get the MMF 7.3 up to the old table&#8217;s sound I had to put on a better cable, use a Music Hall Aztek\u00a0upgrade\u00a0mat, and put the MMF 7.3 on a butcher block base. It worked very well so I may use the Music Hall from now on, though I love the workmanship of the SME arm and have a sentimental attachment to the VPI\u00a0because at\u00a0one point way back when I was a\u00a0leading\u00a0VPI\u00a0dealer. Still, I prefer to\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0with components that\u00a0I represent, so the choice will probably got to Music Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Because of the good Stereophile review I&#8217;ve set up a Music Hall MMF-7.3 turntable at home. It comes with an Ortofon 2M Bronze, which I listened to and then put on my Quintet Bronze ( one of the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/i-try-a-music-hall-mmf-7-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,135,58,12],"tags":[264,229,63,238,240,141,123],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cables","category-phono-cartridges","category-turntable-mat","category-turntables","tag-aztek","tag-mmf-7-3","tag-music-hall","tag-ortofon-2m","tag-ortofon-quintet-bronze","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-stereo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6f3d7-bd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}