The Music Maker III now in its latest and best guise, is a truly beguiling Cartridge. As a moving Iron Cartridge it has none of the draw backs of low output moving coils, and yet offers the listener the chance to experience music in a truly sublime way. No wonder some reviewers have described this as one of the best pick up cartridges available, period.
"The Music Maker's bass articulation is a true strength. Another is the line contact stylus. It lays claim to having the longest area of groove contact in the stylus world. What this means is not just incredible tracking abilities but also an infilling of the smallest dynamic and rhythmic cues, a stable and vast soundstage (equal to that of the Allaerts) and the ability to render the really tough instruments -- female vocal, piano, cymbals -- deftly and with silken authority.." 6 Moons Music Maker MkII
"And now my system has a new "reference" for others to beat. The Hadcock with either the Music Maker or the XX-2 cleans up the bottom end of the Orbe and just makes music so much fun, so that the SME has to take third place. That my two favourite arms are unipivots is significant, I'm not saying that a unipivot is a guarantee of quality (I didn't much like the Kuzma), but those "flat earthers" that have been banging on about them for the last 20 years obviously have something going for them.." TNT-Audio Music Maker MkII
"The first thing you notice is the solidity and presence it has compared to almost all MC cartridges. There's a sense of unstoppable momentum to music... For anyone using a valve pre-amp like a Conrad-Johnson or early ARC, this cartridge is manna from heaven. Being used to hearing vastly expensive MCs in a system tailored to their balance, the Music Maker never left me feeling short-changed. ... never was a product so aptly named; never was an alternative so welcome." Roy Gregory, Hi-Fi+ Music Maker MkI, Issue 5 2000
"The Music Maker is an extremely interesting product: it links the best of both (MM & MC) worlds together: it is clean, accurate and detailed like a good MC while it has the warmth and the "weight" of the best MM's. In the end, the quality/price ratio of this cartridge is simply excellent. Only real Music Lovers apply". TNT-Audio Music Maker MkI
Technical Specification:
Output voltage 4mV
Frequency response 10Hz - 50KHz
Stereo separation >25dB across 10Hz to 30KHz range
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