PS Audio Stellar Phono -vs- Manley Labs Chinook

I owned a Chinook for about a year and honestly never truly warmed to it ever.
I sold it and returned to the phono I had before it.
GoldNote ph10. Quite possibly the most flexible phono I have ever owned. And did I say ......quiet..... like inky black quiet even using lomc carts and ear up against speaker with no music playing type of quiet.

Heard stellar opinions on the Stellar but no first had experience.

Have a Manley Chinook and Manley Stingray integrated. The Chinook MM section is excellent. (The Stingray is beyond reproach.) The Chinook MC section is not quite as steller. With MC cartridges I use a stepup to boost the SQ.
My EAR 825 is ever so slightly better in the MC mode. The EAR uses an internal stepup. So maybe my systems just sound better with stepups for MC cartridges.
Haven’t heard the PS Audio Stellar, but have had other PS Audio amps and dacs and never liked any of them.

Stingray has a built-in phono section?  I thought it was essentially a linestage with a lot of high level inputs, in case your phono stage does not provide same.

Dear @drummer808 : The choice is easy because tubes are not for cartridges, especially LOMC ones.

In the other side PS looks really fine and comes with a in-home trial promotion so you can lost almost anything with.

https://www.psaudio.com/products/stellar-phono-preamplifier/#tab-description

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

@lewm 

Stingray has a built-in phono section?

I think he's saying he uses the Chinook with the Stingray.  I don't think he was implying in any way the Stingray has a phono section, only that he prefers the MM section on the Chinook over its MC section.