What phono pre am I looking for?

I ended up buying the Herron. can't tell you how it sounds yet but something tells me it's going t be just right. 

New and under $1500, sticking with tubes also, take a look at the Decware phono preamp. You already have the Decware amp. If you like that then their preamp maybe the way to go. Rogue also makes a tube phono preamp within your price range. You obviously can spend a lot more and get something better you can also spend more and do worse. I have had equipment from both manufacturers and at the time liked the equipment and support they gave behind it.

you are looking for a Manley Chinook

If one wants to stick with solid state, and if one has money to spend, and since the OP wants at least two phono inputs, I highly recommend the DS Audio phono stages.  I have heard them both in my house, in my system, and they are among the rare SS phono stages that could compete with my Atma-sphere MP1, albeit I still preferred the MP1 by a slight margin. But the great thing about the TOTL DSA phono stage (about $10,000, I think) is that it has THREE completely independent phono circuits, so you can set gain, load, capacitance, etc, independently for each of the 3 stages, and there's no worries about colorations or signal loss due to the interposition of switches in the phono signal path.  The designer is a very nice guy, too, and he seems to have thought of every eventuality in implementing a 3-cartridge/3-tonearm set-up.  The less expensive version of two models I heard is possibly only a single phono stage but has all the virtues of its big brother.

I'd look into the Black Ice (formerly Jolida) F159 vacuum tube phono preamplifier at your exact target retail price of $1495. It's all tube and has 40dB and 60dB gain settings.

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