Depends on the rest of your system. I tend to go with the Hippocratic oath wrt audio: First, Do No Harm.
By harm I mean overprocessing the signal. So if you agree with that and have a simple signal path with minimal processing, then get a point to point pre by decware, Apollo, Aric or similar. Apollo is an undiscovered gem and is still more affordable.
If you don't agree with my methodology, than that is why I kept it short, so you wouldn't waste too much time reading it.
Jerry