While in the early days Pro-Ject probably needed the OEM business to keep the factory running full throttle, that’s no longer the case, yet Mr. Hall’s Pro-Ject build ‘tables utilize some familiar-looking components including carbon fiber arms but also incorporate Hall’s own unique thinking about damping and isolation, which led to the company’s distinctive top of the line “layer cake” plinth look. He’s also owned more than few turntables and as a longtime friend of Linn’s founder and fellow Scotsman Ivor Tiefenbrun, no doubt the two indulged in many soused turntable design discussions, though probably little of it was retained by either one.īeing a personable and forward looking fellow, Roy forged an early relationship with Heinz Lichtenegger, another forward looker and modern era turntable pioneer who did own a turntable factory and thus in 1998 was born the MMF line of Music Hall turntables manufactured at the Pro-Ject factory to Mr. Today there are many players in the turntable business who don’t own their own factory, but Roy was a pioneer. He figured out a way to be in the turntable business for decades without having to invest in a turntable factory. Music Hall’s Roy Hall is kind of like that. The late and great comedian Jackie Mason once quipped “You know who invented sushi? Not the Japanese! Jews invented sushi! Who else would figure out a way to open a restaurant without having to invest in a kitchen?
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