Looking for a tube phono pre


Looking for a tube phono pre in the 2500 to 3k price range. Currently running a Sutherland Insight LPS. Using a PrimaLuna EVO 400 integrated and VPI Prime scout with Hana ML. I have a Chinook on order at Upscale but they are dragging their feet and I have read some reliability issue post with the Chinooks, so I can cancel the order. Anyone compare the Rogue to a Chinook? Thanks

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Based on the quoted information in bold print, one cannot have an opinion about "electronic azimuth adjustment", because there is not one word of explanation contained in that paragraph.  Lots of hi-gain phono stages use cascode input circuits; I own 3 of them, in fact.  The choice of that input topology does not per se address azimuth adjustment, whether built with solid state or tube devices. Apart from the mention about minimizing crosstalk, which is the function of azimuth adjustment, I still don't know how it works without introducing some complex circuitry to modulate the very low voltage signal from a cartridge; actually adjusting azimuth at the headshell would be a better choice.  I guess that since Fosgate did design the Fozgometer, perhaps he has incorporated some of that circuitry into the input stage. Interesting.  And obviously, he knows more than I do.