Music Hall MMF 7.3 Question

"I don't need a TT of that build quality right now. The Music Hall hits a sweet spot in their line-up and my budget for the moment."

Don't cheapen yourself! The mmf-7.3 can stand up to turntables 2 and 3 times the price! It is a wonderfully designed table and can handle cartridges way way beyond the 2m bronze, although the 2m bronze is no slouch! I own this table in the walnut finish (I dislike black due to fingerprints and dust). I would be in no hurry to replace the 2m bronze as I believe the reviewer is deaf. Roy Hall posted a great rebuttal to his review, defending his choice of the cartridge. If you team the 2m bronze with a Tubed phono stage such as the pro-ject tube box ds2 or the Tavish Design the classic, I think you might be smitten. 

"Same question every week from different users of cheap belt drive turntables."
Ok smart azz...the mmf-7.3 costs just as much as your beloved and much over rated dj, not to mention fugly, technics. Just because it is direct drive does not in any way make it sound any better than a well designed belt drive. The motor beneath the platter is not the optimum way to do things....the noise goes right into the stylus. The 7.3 is a well thought out design with the motor outside the plinth and opposite the tonearm...similar to revolver. Go talk to Roy Hall about your DD....the technics has an inferior tonearm and way less isolation from vibrations if any. 

Ok smart azz...the mmf-7.3 costs just as much as your beloved and much over rated dj, not to mention fugly, technics.

@audioguy85

My turntables are Luxman PD-444 (two of them), Victor TT-101 and Denon DP-80 if you didn’t get it yet.

I sold my beloved Technics long time ago, it wasn’t the SL1200 series you are referring too !!! Actually only one tonearm cost $5000

I recommend new and cheaper Technics for those who wish to buy a great “made in Japan” turntable under $1000 (or under $1700) !

There is NOTHING better at this price on the market today since Technics returned with $4k SL1200GAE and intoduced SP10R and then made SL1200G, GR (for $1700) and Mk7 (for $900)... all with super powerful and precise/stable coreless direct drive motor and great (fully adjustable) tonearms with detachable headshell!

At certain age it’s too hard to understand (or too late to discover) something you never tried before and won’t try today.

But my posts about Technics addressed to other people, not to you with your overpriced belt drive toys and almost zero knowledge about Japanese direct drive turntables and tonearms.

A person who associate Technics only with DJ turntables is know nothing c.....t

Music Hall for the money is a very good turntable. Well thought out design but is no match for a VPI or something similar in my opinion. A dealer who is a vinyl head said Roy Halls tables are poop and you have to spend $4k or more to get really good sound from vinyl. He knew Roy Hall and told him that to his face lol. Personally I don’t think his tables are poop but designed around a price point. Plain and simple but they do outperform a lot of tables below approximately $3K. I enjoyed mine but moved on to a VPI Classic and a Dynavector 20x2L. No comparison. I never tried a MC cartridge on the 7.3 but I’m sure it would have raised the sound quality quite a bit.