Ortofon verto step-up any good?


Hi everyone I just purchased a new RP8 turntable, I am looking at getting a dynavector 20x2 cartridge for it. And my turntable dealer has a customer looking to upgrade his lightly used step-up transformer. And needs to sell it first, and I need one for my phono preamp to run the low output MC. It’s a ortofon verto step up. I Would get it for around $500, should a guy jump on it or save up for a music first audio audio mc 632 step up for $800? Also is the ortofon Verto a better step up device?
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I am als not able to follow the theory. I own more than 40 MC carts

with impedaces from 2 > 40 Ohms and would need to sell my home

in order to buy ''adequate SUT's''. So I bought Denon AU-S1 which

covers the whole range from 2 till 40 Ohms. However I think that

the need for an SUT apply only for LOMC's (bellow 0,2 mV). For

such carts one need ''huge'' amplification which is questionable

above 65 dB. That is why phono-pre producers recommend the

lowest amplification possible for each cart. The reason is increased

distortion and noise by max. amplification. I use the Denon with

Klyne 7PX3.5 phono-pre.