Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil

Sutherland TZ Vibe. 

I’m no expert, but I got help here and learned enough to avoid mistakes.

Phono, anything phono, if possible get return option, it’s a world of ’preferred, not better’, no way of truly knowing how something will sound in your system except by trial.

IF you love your MM Phono Stage, then go for a SUT with some optional settings to fit your current and future variety of LOMC. SUTs are passive, my experience with my Vintage Fidelity Research FRT-4: no sound signature of it’s own. Absolutely no hum.

Just enough gain and proper range of impedance to keep using my Vintage McIntosh mx110z’s Tube MM Phono. It's 4 optional gain/load are linked together: even better would be independent gain and load settings, but that usually pushes the price up.

Any chance you might go to two tonearms? i.e. Playing some Jazz, this one's MONO, use the other arm that's all set up, turn a switch, drop that needle. IF so, a SUT with multiple inputs, front selectable, is great, including PASS for MM so no cable change is needed. 

Entre ET-100 is similar

Often, the numbers make no sense, do your research, ask, I had to find the original specs of my FRT-4 to decipher what gain/impedance the switch positions actually produced

SUT Info I posted here

I recently got a Zesto SUT for a Rega Aphelion 2 cart going into EAT Eglow petite hybrid-tube PS. I can either go directly to PS with high gain and get a bit of tube hiss. Or I can add the SUT and get a bit of transformer hum. Both at very low levels and only audible when I crank up pre-amp and put my ear next to speaker. The Zesto ads more body to the music compared to going straight to PS. You can adjust the tonality a bit with the impedence settings both on SUT and PS. 

I have horn tweeters, and horn mids, and they would reveal any hiss or hum, I have none happily. The FRT-4 SUT has zero hum in my system.

IF you know you will stick with a single arm, with removable headshells for optional pre-mounted cartridges, the Ortofon T30 has 5 optional gain/loads and PASS for MM

I never heard one, I found it’s specs a long time ago

Example: my AT33ptg/II has 0.3mv/10 ohm coil.

LOAD: 'Try For' Formula says coil impedance x 10, so target is 100 ohm load. The 12 ohm setting yields a 118 ohm load, so use that. That setting's GAIN equates to x factor 20, thus signal would be 0.3mv x 20 = 6mv which is more than enough, question becomes too much, might cause overload? probably not.

My FRT-4 setting marked 10 is identical to Ortofon's setting marked 12, both +26db, x factor 20, resultant load 118 ohms, it's like the rules of Bridge, don't ask why, just learn the rules and play.

If you want top of the line or near top of the line, one option would be the (current-based) CH Precision P1, with or without the X1.  Another approach with SUT would be Ypsilon VPS100, or the EMIA LR Phono Corrector.