Do I need a sut?

 Hi Jeff,Don't sweat it, just get the sUTand try it. As long as you didn't overpay you should be able to get it out of it unscathed if you want to.  Raul just hates SUTs in general and Tubes as well so I wouldn't give him too much credibility.   He may be right about the frequency response not going out to 100 kHz but that's not important anyways. As long as it doesn't have a sharp cut off at 25 kHz like digital it's not gonna show any anomalies in the audible range. Specs only tell half the story but he seems fixated on them. Another thing to consider is back in those days manufacturers were honest about the specs whereas these days it seems numbers are just chosen out of thin air sometimes.

 Also the Herron has two configurations as far as gain goes. You just have to switch the Tubes from 12at7 to 12 a X7 to make it the higher gain version. I'm not sure which configuration you have. 

I got iPhono2 from a friend to try with my Ortofon MC2000, this phono stage has 72dB gain, so we will see how it works with MC2000 compared to the SUT i use now with this cartridge. 

Dear @jdodmead : The T2000 made it expressely for the MC2000 goes from 8hz to 150khz ( -3db at 4hz. ) and weigths around 4k.

Ortofon was whom puts in the comercial market the first LOMC cartridge and certainly they knew exactly why that so very low output in the MC2000 and additional they knew how try to degrade the less the cartridge signal in those vintage times.

I own one of the best SUT ever that's the Denon AU-1000 that goes from 5hz to 200khz and weigths around 12 kg. Even today along the Technics exist no single SUT that can even its high quality performance levels. No, don't look to this Denon because has not the rigth gain for your MC2000.

That FR XG-5 was a FR entry level SUT in 1983 and weigths around 1 kg and certainly its frequenci range to limited but even the FR vintage top of the line in those years were an inferior SUTs design.

Always exist stupid people that knows nothing about and that talks only because they have a mouth but the audio world have people of all kind of knowledge/ignorance levels . 


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

@jdodmead : Btw, MC2000 has response from 5hz to 90khz and in laboratory measured over 100khz. Very special design and SUT must be at least at the same level.
 The best electronics for the MC2000 is an active high gain SS phonolinepreamp but are really expensive one of this high quality level/caliber.

R.