Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid.


It appears, it is not Pass, Rowland, even Lamm etc. Who then ? 
I heard about Ypsilon, though some say it is a little bright and forward sounding.
inna

First Sound, now out of Brooklyn, N.Y.

vacuum tube, fully dual mono construction, separate power suppl(ies)

all RCA, no remote, but one very robust, excellent sounding pre amp supported by a genius gentlemen

The Schiit Freya...A remote, a 128 step relay switched very accurate attenuator, three choices of remote selectable passive, FET, or tube output through 4 6SN7GTBs, fully balanced operation, five remote selectable inputs including two balanced and three single ended, three outputs including one balanced and two single ended, and excellent low noise floor sound that I enjoy immensely. It's USA built and costs around 700 bucks, supported by geniuses who may or may not be gentlemen, but are more like curmudgeonly rebellious marketplace disturbers.
Oh man, gonna get a Schiit saga next month..Can't wait to dump my Onkyo receiver that I am using exclusively a a pre-amp (although a great home theater receiver). I am not completely sure this receiver is doing an ADA conversion with my turn table, so Schiit is gonna remedy this for me.