Best tube preamplifier for under $15k

Perhaps an ‘One Careful Lady Driver’ ARC REF40 if one were to drop lucky

Emotive Audio Epifania 
Allnic Audio L-5000 DHT

Both well under the $15k ceiling, both reference class.

@phantom_av  it's great experience to compare different kind of preamplifier. I have the similar interesting in the past few years and just got dehavilland UV iii a  month ago. I have very good impression of this preamplifier. Although it is not expensive, but the sound is great.

Have you listened to  this preamplifier? If yes, how you compared with mp-3 ?

 

Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL is mentioned a lot in this thread.

I would appreciate it if the owners could expound on why they like it. I own a Luminous Audio Axiom 2, a Don Sachs DS2, and a CJ 17LS2 and would really be interested in how the LTA sounds compared to any of those.

Thanks for listening.

New poster here.