Schiit Freya plus. Is this an upgrade?

My Freya + arrived and man am I impressed. Quad Matched Tung Sols. Running Fully Loaded Odyssey amp to a set of Maggie 1.7 After 5 hours I don’t want to cut it off. Thankful for an empty house. I have read many posts claiming excellent synergy with a tube preamp, a/b amp and maggies. The difference is night and day with the Schiit in the line. Mind Blown. They did not lie. I use my DAC attenuation and leave the Freya+ open.

213Runnin,
    Good point. I only use one source, my Dac. It has 99 step .5db linear volume control with only one resistor in the signal path at any setting. (NuPrime Dac10)
  I don't know how the Freya+ Volume control is designed.  Didn't see any detail on the website or in the manual...maybe someone else knows?

melm,

    You are correct, The unit arrived with a set of JJ tubes but I already had a set of quad Tung Sols before I purchased the unit as I had decided on finding a tube pre-amp.  Perhaps this weekend I will have time to compare.  

If I could change one thing, I would want the lights to be cyan instead of white to match the rest of my system and to keep the glare down in the evening. I only use the remote to shift out of tube mode, otherwise it stays on 24.7  
Things I do like:
Low Noise Floor. Its quiet. I don't hear any white noise.
Shift from Tube mode cuts tubes offline.
Balanced Inputs.
Auto Delay on the Tubes, I'm impatient sometimes and would jump the gun.
Not having to open the box and pull the unit out to roll tubes.
Cost IMHO is below what you get.
Lastly, it makes me enjoy my music more. I spend more time listening.

I use Balanced with my Bryston 4B3 with zero problems. Not sure where this is coming from. Running the Freya Plus for 1.5 Years