There’s a Hegel H160 on US Audio Mart for $1600, which is a great-sounding integrated that puts out 250Wpc into 4Ohms so has plenty of juice to drive your silvers. No phone pre, but there’s a new Cambridge Audio CP2 available here now for $148 that’s probably a good bit better better than most phono preamps built into lower-priced integrateds and may be good enough to delay dropping more cash on another phono pre for a while. This could be a great sounding system, but one caveat is you’d need to get a set of RCA to BNC adapters as the H160 only has two analog inputs, one of which is balanced. On the flip side, the 160 also has a pretty good built-in DAC so you could try the digital out on your CD-1 to the Hegel and see if there have been any improvements in digital processing over the past 20 years. Just another potential option, and best of luck.
Trying to choose between Brio Elex-R and Rogue Sphinx V2 &Audiolab’s 6000a (budget choice)
I have a Rega Planar 3 with a Nagaoka MP-200 on its way. I'm keeping my psb Stratus Silver speakers. I also have an Anthem CD-1 cd player, but my bigger concern is the sound via the turntable. I'm looking at the integrated amps mentioned in the title. I don't like the sound too bright or brassy, but I don't want it muddled either. Bass needs to have punch but not bloated. I listen to a little of everything but mostly classic rock, both hard and soft. I know I may have to go with a separate phono preamp at some point, but I want something that has a solid phono stage for now. FYI: I have a B&K Pro 10MC preamp I could use in whatever setup I end up with, but I'm leaning towards selling it and just going with the integrated. Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom :)