Reasonably Priced PreAmp without Phono ?

You're getting lots of good suggestions here and I suspect all would work fine.

One last word on the Quicksilver gear. I'm not sure I'd let reliability discourage your purchase in this case. I've owned two pairs of amps, a linestage and a phono pre (the preamp, phono pre, and my present amps, Silver Monos, were all purchased used) and I've never had even a hiccup with any of them. YMMV. Good luck.

The Quicksilver is tubed, with a couple of 12AX7s (one per channel). Here's a link to more info:

http://www.quicksilveraudio.com/products/line.html

-Jon

Used Quicksilver Linestage at around $500-$550; hard to beat in that price range.