Best High Output MC


It seems like it's getting really hard these days to find a preamp with a decent phono stage for even medium output MC even among the very top end preamps. Given this fact, a high output MC or MM seems like the reality for me if I want to upgrade my preamp but keep a good phono stage. What do you think are the best of the high outputs or MM's or is it better to look for a separate phono preamp to accomodate my MC?
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If you don't want to get involved with selecting impedance loads that is very essential for the MC cartridges or have no such possibility in your phono preamp than you should take MM. You should research among clearaudio carts such as Aurum Beta S...
I'm the fan of medium output MC cartridges since I use passive preamplification. In this or say more precise both cases you should match it to the tonearm and turntable. The next step is phono and the loading. Look for the specs on load impedance of each cartridge and select the phono preamp with appropriate gain and certainly class for the cartridge selected.