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How to choose step up transformers?

I just get into vinyl.  I bought a Sony PS2250 turntable and I have a Luxkit a3300 preamp.  The preamp has a MM phono stage but not MC.  I would like to get a MC cartridge so I am looking to buy a Step up transformer.  I don’t know what MC cartridge I am going to get yet.  Do I need to match up the cartridge and the SUT?  If yes, what do I need to match?  Likely I will buy something not too expensive such as the Denon DL301.  
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roberjerman
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I have been using Grado MI's and various MC cartridges since 1976 - so I certainly have experience to draw upon!
roberjerman
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I own five SUTs, including a Mike Sanders Quicksilver - and numerous mc cartridges. Why? For the different sonic "flavors" with different combinations of cartridges and SUTs. 
roberjerman
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And for something "different" I also have a Marcof PPA-1 battery-powered SS head amp. This too sounds excellent! 
roberjerman
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The good news is that SUT matching is not that critical! So if you change your mc cartridge you will still have very good-to- excellent sound quality - just with a different sonic "flavor". That was what the late - and missed! - Art Dudley concluded after years of listening. He mentioned this in one of his many columns!
roberjerman
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@lalitk : Yes, I am critical of most of the claims made for today's Hi End gear! But I am content to live with and use some of the best tube and SS gear of the pre- '90 eras! Three roomfulls, in fact! Plus many TTs and boxes of LPs. And not to forget the three RTR's and boxes of RTR tapes!
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