mid-rang pre amp

Hello, I am alittle new to the home theater would and just started to get in to separates. I have seen all the emotive. Outlaw and marantz. Is there other places I am missing I have at least 2,000 to spend. I would love it to just have the fun stuff like THX, Dolly and etc. I am not a big fan of all the fluff like streaming, blue tooth, and etc. Also don't mind going used but when I was looking on here the per amps I was looking at the user didn't have any feedback so I was hesitated. There was some nice ones. I was even looking at a lumagen video processor with a decent sound processor would this be a good idea? Honestly, I most likely will buy a marantz but I was wondering if their is anything else out there. I wish I could get a ADA rapture for 2,000. But I guess i will see that in my dreams tonight.