15-30 minutes is all it takes to complete the assembly. Setting up the arm is particularly easy as music Hall has etched a line on the back of the tonearm to show the correct position of the counterweight. For the Classic, this assembling process, which involves installing the platter, inserting the headshell with a pre-mounted cartridge into the tonearm, adjusting the counterweight of the tonearm, and installing the dust cover onto the table, is a relatively straightforward undertaking and the steps are described well in its manual. Typical to turntables, some assembly is required prior to use. The Music Hall Classic turntable comes well packed with all its components nicely secured among the fitted paddings inside the box. This can become a hindrance in building a vinyl playback system. One also needs to add a good phono-stage preamplifier, which is often not part of their existing system. Typically, though, a turntable is not the only component needed to build a good vinyl playback system. Understandably, one needs to get a good turntable as a starter for vinyl playback. With the rising popularity of vinyl, I am sure that a good number of non-vinyl audio enthusiasts consider joining the vinyl bandwagon, although the thought about the amount of investment needed to get to it can be overwhelming. Compact Disc (CD) or cassette tape (remember that?) is the most likely starting point. Most audio enthusiasts who, like me, began their audio journey towards the end of the last century or early in this millennium, usually did not start with vinyl. Notwithstanding its limitations, the format certainly possesses undeniable appeal and is touted as the de facto analog audiophile format in the audio community. Based on the current popular trend, it is quite clear that vinyl is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. In recent years, however, vinyl has experienced a strong revival. The format quickly garnered popularity, but with the rise of digital audio technology, it experienced what seemed like a slow death during the 1990s and 2000s. Vinyl technology has been around for over a century and the vinyl media has assumed its current commercial Long-Playing (LP) form since 1948.
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