Best Pre for ATC 100's

3rd the ATC preamp. They were designed to work with their speakers. I'm not saying nothing else is better, but I don't think there is at the price and with active ATC speakers. They're great on their own, and far better with their speakers IMO.

May I suggest better power cords and a power regenerator, and those parallel power line filters? Those have a humongous difference in the ATCs. They are very very sensitive to this sort of treatment.
Also, plenty of people I know run ATCs with tube preamps and I read online that YBA has the perfect preamps for them as well as the preamps from ATC's own line.

Don't forget to change the fuses as well. Though you need a professional to do them for you. The fuse holders are crazy hard to disassemble.
And you really should give us more details about what other components you have in your system. In particular, what dac or source are you using?

I have my ATC hooked on to a Ear Yoshino 868 pre amp, I also own the ATC CA2, but the sound with the EAR is just too sweet.
ATC sounds fantastic with tubes.

How about Linn klimax kontrol? Does it match, I am using Linn system and now interesting in the same ATC 100 active tower. Anyone has experience ?

Thanks