Someone else would know better than I...

I will say that a Yamaha RXV650 preamp / Adcom 545 II with the "pure clean" button pressed (bypass all the processing circuitry) sounds quite nice. No other combination of equipment I have used compares. I do not use a phono, however.

For phono, there has to be something out there better, many vintage choices. Again, someone else will know.

jocko