Suggestions for an SUT for Ortofon vintage MCs?

Can the transformer that came with many SL15s be found in that price range?

As far as $500 and under it's in the diy territory or vintage score imho. ( jensen, lundahl etc)

I got a Phasemation T-300 not too long ago and it's been a great pairing with my old Koetsu Black. It's 1:20 ratio or 26 dB gain, dead quiet, lowered my noise floor to nothing. Noticeable gains in sonics, especially in clarity and bass drive. Think I scored a pretty nice bargain, does the trick for me. 

Tell us what the output voltages and the impedance's of the carts are so we can make some suggestions.

BillWojo

Dear @dhcod  : With out doubt and almost at any price you can't do better than the Denon AU-340 that will works really fine with your cartridges and almost any vintage or today ones:

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

Btw, there are many units on ebay, higly recomended and if you make an internal rewiring and change the input/output connectors for say WBT then your unit can't be outperformed.

Wow, that's an excellent price on that Denon AU-340! I use one for my Denon DL-103 carts and love it. Those high end Tamuri transformers can't be purchased bare at that price.

BillWojo

Dear @billwojo  : Yes, Tamura transformers are second to none. Today SUTs using Tamura transformers comes with an over 1K price tag.

The ones used in the AU-1000 were customer made and exclusively for Denon. The 1000 has a FR: 5hz-200khz and weigths over 12 kg. I still own it, this is really the State of the Art in SUTs. Nothing less.

R.