I was in the same predicament. I have a Rega P3 and wanted to step up so I went and asked Bob what to do.
Bob at Bob’s Devices is a really great guy and many people think his SUTs are the best way to deal with an MC cartridge. He talked me out of expensive turntables, which he sells, and into one of his SUTs the SKY 20, for medium out put MCs and then said the biggest problem, is that most phono sections are crap.
He told which phono amps he likes, there are only two. And as the one guy did not respond I bought this:
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/elekit/345254-eq1616d-phono-amp.html
Now i can build stuff like this, so I just got the kit from Victor as waiting for Sunvalley to build one might take a while.
I’m pretty sure this the right direction to go. Bob says after I get this working well, the SKY 20 to SV-EQ1616D to my preamp, a better cartridge should be next, then after this is all sorted, he will happily sell me a VPI Prime Scout. ;)
Bob at Bob’s Devices is a really great guy and many people think his SUTs are the best way to deal with an MC cartridge. He talked me out of expensive turntables, which he sells, and into one of his SUTs the SKY 20, for medium out put MCs and then said the biggest problem, is that most phono sections are crap.
He told which phono amps he likes, there are only two. And as the one guy did not respond I bought this:
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/elekit/345254-eq1616d-phono-amp.html
Now i can build stuff like this, so I just got the kit from Victor as waiting for Sunvalley to build one might take a while.
I’m pretty sure this the right direction to go. Bob says after I get this working well, the SKY 20 to SV-EQ1616D to my preamp, a better cartridge should be next, then after this is all sorted, he will happily sell me a VPI Prime Scout. ;)