Lentek Head-Amp
The finest Vinyl record pick ups are the moving coil cartridges and the finest of those are the "low output" variety.
An Alternative way of interfacing a low output moving coil with your phono stage is with a pick up head-Amplifier, this is not a phono stage but an electronic gain stage designed to add a few Db to the tiny MC signal.
It is an alternative method to a SUT (step up transformer) and interestingly a method championed by many influential personalities in the Hi Fi world.
To add further convienience these Lentek head amps are battery powered.