It won What Hifi's "best headphone amplifiier" award three years in a row, a couple of decades ago. I still use it as my main amp in my highest hi fi set up, feeding a Senn HD 650 headphone. Although I haven't looked further, as I've been so happy with this set up, I was happy to treat it as end game. And that's twenty years almost daily use, so it's not only good, it's durable.
Still... two decades... one might expect some advances. Why did you ditch it? What sounded better? Did you do double blind tests?
Best headphone amplifier Awards 2011. Music through the Graham Slee Novo is involving and engaging
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