best remote preamp for McCormack amp


I am looking for the best matching preamp other than a mccormack to match up with my dna-2. Just a simple line stage, no phono, and non passive.thanks for any feedback.
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I'm on my second SF line 1--a gold faced and at an incredible deal a few years back.   Around 600 for it.    Lots of good connection options as the Line 1 or the 2 or 3.   2 balanced inputs.  1 balanced op.  2 rca's pre out, Most pre's only have 1 pair of pre out.    tape connections as well as plenty of rca inputs.  I have 3 amps running off of mine.. Used separately and with choice of hi sensi speakers for the 2a3 SET that is a part of the system  . A MCcormack DNA 0.5 is one and the other is a Pass xa30,5.    The remote is my favorite of any I have used..  the aluminum hockey puck.    There is a good tweak for the dac chips for the volume control---replacing the Crystal with Burr Brown--I have  which ones written down somewhere..  2 Crystal chips are soldered to the board which means need to change over to socket type and there is no one around here that I would want working on it so havnt done the conversion.  Some units already have the sockets so its a matter of buying the Burr Browns which are only about 12 bucks apiece.