Hello, "Antek" sells small toroids, now even with electrostatic shields. I didn`t try them so far, but the price seems reasonable. In this project I didn`t use anything exotic, I have another project right now (microphone preamp) with "AE-Europe" duble C-core power transformer.
Did you try other tubes / topologies for the first stage? I know that is an "interactive" job, but 6072/12AY7 comes to my mind...as D3a and E810F...