Do I need a sut?

Dear @jdodmead : Yes, it’s the best you can do for now because even with that noise level what you listen through the MC2000 is just very fine.

You own very good speakers that I listened many years ago, Unfortunatelly for that cartridge its sensitivity is a little low around: 88dbs.

""" That makes this cart really, really expensive. """, well things are that the cartridge is an expensive one when in those times was only one of two cartridges in the 1K price range.

Even with an active high gain SS phonolinepreamp something that you have to really care with this cartridge is that your TT and tonearm ( it self. ) stays perfectly grounded and very important is the cable between the tonearm and the phono stage not only the shieklding and cable quality level but its " orientation/route/directuion to the PS input connectors " that sometimes helps with that noise levels. I think you have to make some tests about and see what happens with.

Anyway, enjoy it !.

R.

If you like where the MC2000 is taking you an SUT that will work and suit your price ($759) is the MFA 632 at a 1:100 ratio

Scroll down this page for instance of its use with the MC2000ii
http://gpoint-audio.com/our-collection/music-first-audio/

Dear @folkfreak : """   that will work and suit your price """

It's obvious that you have no single idea of the MC 2000 very high quality performance levels that even can/could outperfoms what you have with the right system.

I can't imagine ( but it can happens. ) that an audiophile can ( by ignorance. ) " destroy " the magnificent signal information coming from a 10K+ LOMC cartridge using a 700 dollars SUT where even exist  not something as essential and critical as its frequency response range ! ! !

How can you recomend it? it does not matters what  your SUT are developing in your system.  

Obviously something wrong down there that added those useless STs with the Q3s.

For me as I told @jdodmead  it's better to stay as he is than spend money in that way and in a company that are " experts " in transformers but can´t gives any single spec other than the ratio.  ? ? ? 

Yes, for you is not important but I'm talking about QUALITY LEVELS not on what " I like it ".

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

@rauliruegas as you very well know (if you are as well informed as you claim) MFA is the hi-fi arm of Stevens & Billington, a long established transformer maker. MFA/S&B wind their own transformers to order. The base model, which the 632 series are based around (I believe) is the TX-103, specs on that are available here
http://www.stevens-billington.co.uk/page103.htm

As all MFA products are built to order you can be sure they will match the needs of your cartridge (ratio, impedance, inductance etc).

Anyway I'm not trying to shill for MFA, I'm sure Bob's are just as good, but could not let Raul's slur go by

That's why I mentioned them as experts. I think that not you or me know if inside that is the TX-103 that's a good SUT but: is it the best out there?.

There is something where the designers of the 103 coincide with what I posted here:

"   to maximize bandwidth ", this parameter is extremely important in a SUT and the 103 is not near the Denon or Technics one, even the T2000 makes it better.

I posted more than once in Agon that if I don't owned my active high gain SS Essential 3160 ( up-dated. ) I can live easily using my modified Denon SUT  as a fact time to time I use it.

R.