I’m auditioning the Black Ice Audio preamp right now. Just took delivery yesterday, so no good comparisons with my Don Sachs Pre yet. But with all the other features on the pre, it’ll be interesting for sure.
But in bring it up because it’s 6sn7-based, has remote, and XLR ins/outs along with RCAs, is $2500 base price, and 45 day trial period. They also offer a ton of upgrade options if you want to go down that road. If it sounds promising to me after a few weeks, I’m likely to go down the upgrade path myself.
With only about five hours on it, I wouldn’t put it on the warm side of the tube spectrum, but it’s only five hours in. And using stock Sovtek tube.