Best Phone Stage for under $1,000.000

Beats me , but the Pro-ject DS2 is very good IF you get 2 very good
12AX7 tubes like my Amprex Valvo's from their Hamburg plant .No SS unit will sound that good .

if you can find a PS Audio GCPH modified by Parts Connexion used they are one of the great values in audio

I recently bought here a Threshold FET 10 line PLUS the FET 10 phono (separate boxes plus a separate power supply) for under $1000. It beats the pants off my $2,300 Bryston BP 1,5. There is a Threshold phono FET 10 for sale here but the price is too high at $1400. (That is more than it cost new 28 years ago)