My considerably-modded Yamaha C-4 is one of the few back-in-the-day SS phono stages I've experienced that stands up well even in a modern context. I recall many years ago someone doing a long-running test of affordable phono preamps and a stock C-4 was judged as good as any.
I had a couple of "classic era" tube preamps and the stage in my CA-1010 easily whupped both of them. I had a weird arrangement for a time where I was using that massive Yamaha for nothing more than the phono stage... back in my supporting kids/mortgage days.
I'd heard that the Onkyo stages were very good for the time, but I've never had the TX-4500 MkII (currently in that kitchen system) anywhere I had a turntable to try it.