Graham Slee Novo ausinių stiprintuvas

Customers who bought this headphone amplifier include Shure Inc., USA.

The Novo inline headphone amplifier is what it says – it can be put inline between your source and amp, between your preamp and amp, or between your tape machine and tape input, thus enabling you to listen to your music on headphones as well.

It also won What Hi-Fi's prestigious best headphone amplifier award for three years in a row so you know it's going to sound good.

It's also what's called discrete, which means it's made from individual transistors and that's usually considered high-end. It does contribute to the great sound of the Novo, yet the Novo is a budget headphone amp.

Features

Inline: sometimes called "chained" or "daisy-chained" - it has two pairs of phono sockets cross-joined so what you put in goes out to your other equipment, whilst the Novo also takes its signal from that point. The Novo input impedance is high meaning it won't load the signal.

No dangerous DC on the headphone output prevents headphone damage: it only takes a small amount of DC offset to heat up the windings of headphone transducers. That heat softens the adhesive which keeps the "voice-coils" in place, and eventually your headphones don't perform all that well. All our headphone amplifiers block DC offset from reaching your headphones.

Headphone sensitivity volume control: unlike conventional volume controls, this one is designed to be used over its full rotation to compensate for a wide range of headphone impedances and sensitivities. This avoids the use of gain switches which would otherwise result in differing performance characteristics depending on the gain setting.

The Novo headphone amplifier is supplied as standard with a silent running energy efficient power supply complying with world carbon reduction targets.

The Novo headphone amplifier can also be used with the PSU1 power supply (available for separate purchase - see Power Supply tab here) for those wanting a traditional (but more power hungry) linear power supply.

Specification

Dimensions: L. 10.5 W. 10.5 H. 5 (cm) approx. excluding controls and connectors

Output: 150mW rms into 32 Ohms, 40mW rms into 600 Ohms (both channels fully driven - 0.05% THD)

Frequency Response: 38Hz to 27kHz (-1dB), 20Hz to 50kHz (-3dB) (volume control at '2:30 pm' position)

Channel Balance: 0.5dB typical

Signal to Noise: -80dB CCIR Q-pk 20Hz-20kHz (into 30 Ohms)

Stereo Crosstalk: -64dB typical

Distortion (THD+Noise): 0.04% at 1 kHz into 30 Ohms (volume control at '2:30 pm' position)

Media Reviews

"...performance has to be the most important factor, making this test-express a head to head between the Lehmann and the Graham Slee - and for us it has to be the Novo...

[Graham Slee Novo, What Hi Fi? Sound and Vision, April 2009]

"The Novo has a wonderfully open sound, and paints low level detail with a fine brush

[Graham Slee Novo, Accessories, Best Headphone Amplifier, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, Awards 2009]

"What really stands out for us is that it's such an involving listen - you can't help getting into whatever it's serving up.

[Graham Slee Novo, Accessories, Best Headphone Amplifier, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, Awards 2010]

"Give this feisty little amp a good running in period and it'll really shine, serving up a well-balanced sound that features crisp treble, warm and emotive midrange and a springy, supple bass to add substance.

[Graham Slee Novo, Accessories, Best Headphone Amplifier, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, Awards 2011]