I like my sutherland Ph3 just fine with tube pre and tube amp. Battery operated. No power cord. D batteries. Very quite. Many loading options. Sounds great. Made my goldring MM sound good. Makes my Ortofon Cadenza Red sound great. Got mine used here. They come up every so often. $1K new.
Help me pick a phono preamp
Here's my rig-mmf7 tt with denon dl 160 cart, 211 tube mono amps, tube pre. now using a consonance pm 6 phono pre,not bad time to upgrade it. I want to keep it under 1k, and have been reading alot about the dynavector p75, ear, graham slee, lehman black cube, musical surroundings phonomena, and sim audio. I am not sure about going with a tube phono pre, because of the tube amps and preamp. may be too much tube. Any opinions on a good choice for my system? thanks.