Best budget phono preamp?


Title kind of speaks for itself. SS stongly preferred. Needs to be able to handle either a MM or high output MC. Something that would work well with an AR ES1.
tonyptony

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Thanks Chuck. I haven't yet gotten through the issue. I'll be sure to read it carefully.
I was hoping to stay below or around $500. I read the Bellari review. It sounds nice but may be a little warm. The ES1 is characteristically sort of a closed sounding table, and I'm not sure how something that's being decsribed primarily as "warm" might work with it.
Riffer, what was about the Trigon that got you to keep it? What player, arm, cart do you use it with?