I think you should expand your choices by considering a tube preamp. Specifically, Atmasphere does fully balanced designs and that’s where I’d go first. Tubes in a preamp are very low maintenance. But, if you must do solid state I’d look at Ayre, or maybe Boulder. I’m not 100% sure either is fully balanced, but my guess is they are. Best of luck.
Looking for a preamp with XLR connections
Looking for a reference preamp with XLR inputs and outputs. Looking to spend less than 10k, no tubes. Any suggestion? Thought about the schitt Freya+, but audio science review just review it, and the measurements were aweful.
Thank you for your recommendations.