Best Phone Stage for under $1,000.000

I have been a big fan of parks audio and the new Puffin is a pretty dang good product for the money.  I replaced my parks audio budgie and step up with it and it is great.  Parks audio has seriously under priced the unit.  It allows for MM and MC with no need of a step up and you can fine tune the living heck out of it to match your cartridge exactly.  The quality of sound makes me understand why the designer has a cult following.  For what it is worth; I actually saw the puffin hooked up to a 50k turntable and the owner tell me that he preferred it over his high ticket price tube phonostage that he had hooked up before.  That was a good enough testament for me to drop it into my humble system.

Why all the extra zeros in the question op?

Do you often pay tenth of a cent? Or even care about the cents for anything costing > $100?

I have been very happy with my Black Cube.

Graham Slee has a few under 1k. I have the Gram amp 2 SE. I’m very impressed with it especially for the price 

Croft Acoustics for $995