The Music Maker Classic is a radical change from the long standing line of Music Maker cat ridges, designed and manufactured by Len Gregory. Using pure silver hand wound conductors, the classic has a raft of subtle improvements applied that raise the performance level offered by the Music Maker series to a new level.

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 those reviewers and early customers lucky enough to hear this wonder are describing it as one of the finest pick up cartridges made.

Having heard the Music Maker MkIII develop over the hours of use we have put our cartridge through, we were really stunned at just what a difference the Music Maker Classic had over the MkIII, a real sense of air and spatial placement, and yet a delicacy of sound that lets you here what the artists intended.

(Whether played on the Conductor, the Schroeder DPS or Kondo-wired SME V, the Classic completely lives up to its name. It has tons more richness of tone and depth of color than the MM3. It has wonderful vibrancy, speed and snap. It can do fire and it can caress. This is a seriously good cartridge that can and does play with the big boys.) Edward Barker 6 Moons

My ultimate acid test for instrumental timbre is the violin. The violin’s complex harmonic production is fiendishly difficult to get right: it takes only a slight error and it no longer sounds like a violin. Obviously, if you get the violin wrong, classical music is wounded at its heart. The Classic’s performance was again superlative, not only nailing the violin’s timbre, but also allowing perception of individual violins within the orchestra’s First and Second Violin choirs. Paul Szabady StereoTimes

Technical Specification

Output voltage 4mV
Frequency response 10Hz - 50KHz
Stereo separation >25dB across 10Hz to 30KHz range 
Loading requirement 47K Ohm (standard moving magnet)
Cartridge weight 6.2g
Stylus type proprietary extended contact area diamond
Tracking force 1.55g +/- 0.05g (critical) 
Arm requirement medium to low mass (13g or less) 
Bias (anti-skate) requirements minimal