Phono Stage with XLR outs

https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/phonos-duo/

Although it’s slightly above your budget, I urge you to consider the Hegal V10.

The chassis is divided into two compartments, physically separating the power supplies from the sensitive amplification circuitry and avoiding interference.Hegel fitted  the V10 with gold-plated terminals, balanced XLR outputs, and a solid custom grounding screw. On the all-important input stage, they used ultra-low-noise discrete JFET transistors for both the Moving Magnet (MM) and Moving Coil (MC) input.

@audphile1 

Skoll circuit is fully discrete and balanced, totally different than OpAmp based Mani. I had not heard Mani, but I'd say Skoll has pretty good timber, staging, instrument separation while being very very quiet. What turned me down eventually is how it handles the attack and leading edge of forte piano notes in solo pieces -  distortions are pretty apparent to my ears, perhaps due to rising distortion profile vs frequency which can be seen in measurement data. 

They are reportedly working on a high-performance solid state balanced phono preamp with either traditional voltage gain or transimpedance scheme at USD 1.5-2K range.
 

Distortion and noise is what I remember from Mani. It’s worthy of its schiit name. 

OP

don't forget Parasound Jc3+

after a couple of years trying to find what Phono stage I really wanted, finally got discounted new in box Jc3+ and Boy, was it a revelation!

I use don't used balanced outs BUT it is there! I tested it just to make sure it works and the presentation is noticeably better that SE