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I recently purchased a Graham Slee Novo Headphone Amp to compliment my Grado SR 60 headphones. 

I can only say 'wow'. After an initial running in period, the Grados now have a new lease of life. Stereo separation is amazing...with a very tightly controlled ( can I use the word 'taught' here ?) bass. Vocals are particularly impressive, as is percussion.

There is basically no distortion even at max volume, which is nice.

Standout tracks so far.

• Alanis Morissette 'Bonus' from Jagged Little Pill - Female Vocals are very nice indeed, spacious.
• Rush 'Far Cry' from Snakes and Arrows - Intro is just amazing.
• Rush 'Malignant Naricissism / De Slagwerker ' from Snakes and Arrows Live Blu-Ray Disc. - Well...the best instrumentalists in Rock...doing what they do best :)
• Pink Floyd 'One of these Days' from Echoes ( best of Pink Floyd ) - Awesome stero production
• Damien Rice - 'Cold Water' from O - Stunning Vocals and crescendo
• Mike Oldfield - The Bell(remix) from best of Mike oldfield - 'and once again, tubular bells' 
• Mozart - 'Requiem - Dies irae' - London Philarmonic - music to die to
• Nina Simone - 'Mr Bojangles' - forget the other versions...
• Jeff Buckley - 'Hallelujah' excellent vocal performance
• Radiohead - 'Exit Music ( for a film )' from OK Computer - last 30 seconds are probably the toughest test of any amp/sound system. feedback can sometimes overwhelm..but this sounds fab :)

Apparently the amp takes 300 hours to properly 'run in'..so here is hoping it gets better!