Help selecting a new preamp

Pass Labs Hpa 1. $3500 new. $2750 used from Reno HiFi with 2-3 year warranty. Reference preamp and headphone amp with 2 inputs. Rca only. No remote. No phono stage. Simple. Reviewed by Terry London for hometheaterreview.com

don't forget about Parasound JC2 (BP or not).. when it first came out, they were calling it a giant killer.. and you know, it still sounds great now as it did back then.. no tubes for simplicity, tilts slightly towards the warm side and still very detailed, used under $3k, and plenty of inputs/outputs... I own one... 

If your budget is $ 5000 pass on the Freya.  It is a tremendous value for the price and a great feature set with balanced and RCA inputs and outputs.  Passive, active and tube options for gain a great warranty and an innovative company behind it.  But it will not perform like a $ 5000 pre amp.  My Freya was noisy using tubes ( I heard they addressed this problem recently) and did not compare to a Decware CSP3 in terms of sonics.  I recently bought a used Allnic L-3000 and it is amazing sonically like the reviews describe and dead quiet.
My Decware cost twice as much as the Freya and was unquestionably more enjoyable.  And my Allnic was twice as expensive as the Decware and brings another level of refinement and enjoyment.

My Freya was noisy using tubes ( I heard they addressed this problem recently)

Many hundreds more have not had this problem, they are spec’d at 115db s/n for the tube stage, as good as many $5k tube preamps, you obviously had dud tube/s in yours. And Schiit honoured replacements tubes for those, if you complained.
  
Sure you don’t get exotic tubes for that price, but you find 9 out of 10 owners experiment with better brand of tube anyway, they love this preamp so much.

Cheers George

Thanks to all for the comments advice and direction.  Has anyone heard that Bob Carver will have a tube preamp in the fall?  Any info, or speculation?