(Australia) praised its “exceptional sound quality, even when driving speakers other amplifiers have...
A landmark design, the No.20.5 had an ease and liquidity that I hadn’t heard before from solid-state. As with other Mark Levinson products of the era, the No.20.5 was very laid back, with a subtle expressiveness. Other Class A amplifiers I’ve heard since also exhibited an under...
The Gryphon Apex Stereo was placed in my reference system, replacing the Boulder Amplifiers 2060 stereo power amplifier that anchors this setup. The rest of the components consisted of Vivid Audio Giya G1 Spirit loudspeakers, Shunyata Research Alpha SP speaker cables, Delta IC interconnects, Alpha ...
it is "only" 50 Watts per channel. But as I said inmy review of the Pass Laboratories INT-25 Integrated amplifier,which is rated at 25 Wpc, "Class A amplifiers conduct high current even at idle, and so they end up sending
The Commander is an unusually large, heavy, two-chassis design featuring an 84lb power-supply chassis and a 67lb signal/control chassis. Each chassis weighs more than many powerful power amplifiers and measures approximately 18" wide × 9" tall × 17" deep. (The control chassis is slightly ...
” And with, as Rune put it, “. . . the sale of more than 100 Apex amplifiers since the release, six months ago,” keeping the products shipping out on time is critical. Regarding the Apex, Rune stated that “it was the product everyone has been waiting for.” The Eos...
The Gryphon DNA The Gryphon design philosophy that is the foundation of the speed, transparency, dynamic detail, musicality and sonic neutrality of our amplifiers, source components and loudspeakers also defines the metallurgy, mechanical construction, electrical characteristics and sound embodied in our ...
Design and features The Gryphon Apex Stereo and the sibling Apex Mono amplifiers (which were not auditioned here) are both powerful, cost-no-object designs. Both are biased heavily into class-A, meaning that the transistors never turn off, from the largest positive voltage through the maximum ...
Møller, a 20-year Gryphon veteran who is responsible for the topology and internal design of the company's amplifiers, preamplifiers, and CD players, explained that the Essence's power output is identical in class-A (high bias) and class-AB (low bias). "In AB, perhaps the first 7 ...
three points. And it is hard to understand why such solutions are so rare in audio. Apart from a few cases of small companies, the only predecessor of Gryphon could be a German company, whose name, unfortunately, I forgot, which a dozen or so years ago offered amplifiers in such ...