If you want to go with tubes you might look at the Cary PH-308II. I particularly like the fact that it uses a pair of Lundahl SUTs for low output MCs. Mine sounded great with Ortofon cartridges (my Kontrapunkt-b is quite similar to your Cadenza).
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