Best tube preamp ever

Wolf 

I have worked with a number of preamplifiers that made " new age " " music " sound good.....To put that differently they didn't work..

Tell me that isn't a benefit...I dare you..

What's meant by 'New Age'? Dueter is 'new age', but his early albums are less so... Michael Rother did some new age stuff, but his albums are mostly just cool (excluding the polydor era...). Steve Roach is considered New Age, but in the last 15 years or so his stuff has gotten really interesting (and challenging to some systems)... but to this day one of his new age 80s classics 'Dreamtime Return' has a favorite cut that is somehow still quite interesting (to me- nice to play after coming home from work).... I think he did most of that on a Prophet 5 (but that is only my surmise based on the sounds I'm hearing on this cut):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4CVTeqboSo

Bumping this old thread.. I'm looking for the best tube preamp for the $ and it's looking like even in 2021 the Schitt Freya + is still the gold standard.  The other great thing about the Schitt is they sell immediate on the secondary market so it's risk free to try them out.