Tube pre amp

Troll extraordinaire is correct...
"The Freya is not that good."  
It is VERY good and at the price a screaming bargain: very flexible in terms of inputs and output modes; a balanced design; an excellent, finely graduated volume control; with properly screened tubes (whether NOS or new production, e.g., EH or TungSol) it is very quiet; regardless of tubes used, it's dead silent in Passive or JFET mode.  I use mine with a number of different amps (Taranis, Hegel, First Watt) and am extremely happy with the results.  It supports excellent quality sound with nice 3D imaging.  Highly recommended for an in-home trial, at least.  Can't compare to the Vincent SA31.  Did find it better than the dual 6H30/EZ80-rectified tube preamp I had previously.

Schiit Freya,
i am a Schiit fan. Remember that Schiit sells direct, no middlemen, so the price is about 1/2 of what it would be from a refular AV store. 
That is a big part of their value. And the engineering they are doing in their products is intelligent, sophisticated. 

And you get a 30day trial with full refund. What is not to like??

but I would also support the Vincent tubes and hybrid gear. 
Well- built, very good sound, undervalued and underpriced. 

I'm now on my third piece of Schiit gear as, based on very positive reviews and my experience with my other two Schiit items, I just bought a Mani 3 headphone amp (as everybody should for 100 bucks...it's almost free)...so a Freya, the amazing Loki EQ, and a Mani 3 for less than a grand should make more than a few other companies somewhat worried as all three are superb sounding, quiet running, no nonsense designs. I did not expect the Freya to be "that good" until I put it in my rig last year, and yeah...it is that good.

Not long ago I purchased at few tubes from Upscale Audio so now half the Web sites I visit have advertising banners from Upscale.  Anyway they are really pushing the trade in's, a few pretty nice pre-amps.  Their site may be worth a visit.  

MAGNI 3  (not Mani 3 which might not be an actual thing, but there is a Mani phono preamp), which, by the way, is an astonishingly great sounding little amp, built like a tank (albeit a very small tank).