Or bite the bullet and buy an SUT.
Despite loads of bad publicity, I have now tried three (all around £170, pre-enjoyed ) and they really are something so much better than MC stages. I sold one SUT and that was a first for the buyer, and he was/is well chuffed too.
I very strongly disagree!! There is huge variation in the quality of MC stages, head amps, and indeed SUT's.
I've had 2 customers for a head amp I make that both preferred it to £800+ SUT's and another who preferred my head amp to a £1200 SUT... (but unfortunately for me then tried a head amp at over twice the price of mine, thought it slightly better still and bought that one!). This last person was previously of the "SUT's beat head amps" school of thought...
I'll second the use of the AT VM7xx series. Unfortunately, I can't comment on it's use in an Ittok, because I don't have one.Try an AT VL 740 ML and be seriously impressed.