First ride on mine on Saturday and I thought it was great. I came from 9 speed Sram X9, which I have always liked the positive clicks when you change gear. I did miss that a bit when changing down at the lower end of the SLX cassette – it seems that the last gear changes have almost no click?
I got 3×10 with thoughts of changing to 2×10 but on my ride I found myself in the big ring a fair amount so I’ll have to see about that.
With regard to noise: I noticed, when setting it up, that it was sensitive to cable tension, the B-tension screw adjustment and also the limit adjustments of the actual mech. This was the first time in 20 years of biking that I read the instructions re the order of making adjustments and it all worked very well after doing that. It’s also worth having a look at the length of outer from you last cable stop to the rear mech, I had it too short and this caused problems setting it up.
It looks good, works good and I got the whole lot for £180 delivered from Germany!