Gryphon

Gryphon Audio have built amplifiers in Aarhus, on the eastern coast of Jutland, since 1985, and they have, in that time, developed perhaps the strongest reputation in serious audio for *not compromising*. Every Gryphon integrated amplifier is, in essence, the same kind of engineering project: very large transformers, very deep heatsinks, fully Class A operation, and an output stage so over-specified that the question of *what speaker will it drive* is, in practice, not a question at all.

The Diablo 120 and Diablo 300 integrated amplifiers are where most listeners meet the brand. The Diablo 120 is the smaller of the two, and the speakers it cannot drive convincingly are very few. The Diablo 300 is the larger sibling, with more reserves than any conventional domestic system will ask of it.

Above the integrated line, the Essence preamplifier paired with Essence stereo or with Mephisto and Apex monoblock power amplifiers makes up the reference range. The Apex monoblocks, each the size of a small refrigerator, are amongst the very few amplifiers in current production capable of driving any speaker on the market to its stated limit. They will produce silence between notes that other amplifiers fill with their own quiet labour.

Gryphon also build a loudspeaker line — the Pantheon range — voiced to pair with the electronics. An all-Gryphon system is one of the more distinct sounds in modern hi-fi: ample, precise, unhurried.

Gryphon is the brand a careful buyer arrives at when they have stopped asking *what is enough* and started asking *what is possible*.