I need help regarding tube phono preamplifiers

You are considering some very good phono stages… but if you want great sound from a turntable you should. I have owned Audio Research Phono stages for over thirty years… each time I upgraded researching intensely… but still staying with Audio Research, I currently own a ARC Reference 3 phono stage. I would have a look, although ARC and MAC tend to be in different camps with different priorities. Zesto gets fantastic reviews and VAC is no slouch. You are definitely choosing from some great equipment.

I would take the specific advice of folks that own Mac equipment. MAC is very good at midrange and bass, but is very light on details, so pairing is important. I would pose this question to the Audio Aficionados forum. There are lots of folks there with high end MAC gear that could help.

High quality tubed phono stages are not remotely noisy and are exceptionally musical. I have used tubed phono stages (Audio Research) for the last thirty years. I would listen to a solid state contender, but my experience has show that only good quality tubed preamps and phono stages rise above the competition. 
 

The more high quality tubed equipment I have incorporated in my system the more realistic, compelling my system has sounded, without a loss of detail. You can see a couple of my system under my UserID. I have owned and auditioned hundreds of pieces over the last fifty years.