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Tube Pre Amp + Tube Phono Section

Please give me some recommendations on a tube preamp (either including a phone section or a line-stage tube pre and a separate tube phone section)
Potential candidates so far:
-Audio Research SP6 or SP8 if I could ever find one in decent shape
-Audio Research LS series + separate tube phono stage (which LS is good?)
-CJ line stage (which one?) + separate tube phono stage
Thanks,
Armin
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Mike, I lef the budget out on purpose just to see the feedback I get. My budget is about 2K, however, seems like I can mix and match some used pieces to even get me the higher gain for low-output MC cartridges for this price.

I own some decent pieces, in no particluar order:
-a few Pass power amps,
-Threshold power amps,
-couple of Dyna 70s,
-Dyna MKIIIs
-Gyrodec+SME V (multiple cartridges MM and MC)
-Thorens 124+SME3009SIII
-Maggies 1.6
-JM Lab Tantal 515
-Adcom GFP-565
and quite a few vintage Marantz and other pieces that are more for nostalgic values.

I have never owned a tube preamp. Recently I listened to an SP8 with a high output Denon 103, it blew me away and I decided to get serious about it.

Thanks,
Armin
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