I have a Parks Audio Budgie that is no longer made but if you can find a used one it’s pretty darn good. The only phono preamp I’ve compared it to was an Audio Research LS1 and I much preferred the Budgie and that was by a large margin. It’s a silly good tube PP that might be worth a try and if you don’t like it you can turn around and resale at no loss and probably fairly fast. Might be real hard finding one though. Can’t speak for the new model as mentioned earlier, but it’s SS I believe and not really a replacement. Not sure why they stopped making the Budgie.
