How to match a Cartridge with the right phono preamp?

Before the component decided to roast itself to death, I truly enjoyed the phono stage of my Mytek BB. Luckily, I still had my old Moon Phono Stage in the closet. Yes, the Moon doesn't give me quite as much three dimensionality, but its sound is highly pleasurable.

@yogiboy thank you! I will read about that preamp

@edcyn Do you have the Moon 110lp? How you like it? I was looking all the specs and it has more options that Schiit Mani 2 and a better price compared with high end phono preamps.

All you need to do is check the requirements of your cart for gain, impedance and capacitance and check the phono amp can match these or something close.  That's the easy bit.

But all phono amps sound different, sometimes very different, so it would be good to try a few and get one with sound you like.

I think you are asking the wrong question. Good phono preamps offer a wide selection of resistance and capacitive impedance matching to meet the needs of various MM, low output MCs and high output MCs. Will the phono amplify the type of cart you want? Thats the first thing you need. A unit with easily variable impedance parameters makes listening way easier also, since the cartridge manufacturer's suggestions may not sound the best on your system.. Next is what "sound" do you like? Tubey-neutral, tubey-bloomy, solid state neutral etc. Next whats your budget? There is no substitute for listening in the rest of your system.

Lastly, you don't get to try out cartridges. You are going to pick one then try and find a phono preamp that when adequately is matched to the cart sounds decent to your ears. At a budget level I like the Vincent PHO line and the Pro-Ject Tube boxes but you can spend way less and way more. Good luck but only your ears can tell you whats a good match.