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| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Thanks All. One other really cool touch that is worth mentioning is the little blue flashing light that turns on for a few minutes if you have the DAC module and you haven’t powered the Diablo for a few hours. This light signals that the DAC’s “... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Hi Rshad, I am up to 100 hours and everything is continuing to sound fantastic. To be clear, it is not only the amp that is being burned in, but also the DAC module and the AQ Hurricane cord. I don’t know for certain whether I’m continuing to hear... | |
| Importance of impedance matching cartridge with phono stage? Okay, thanks All. I think that answers the question sufficiently and the 10:1 or greater ratio makes sense. | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? One more thing that may or may not be nonsense is that I’ve heard that the Gryphon’s power regulation is “so good” and resilient to noise that differences in high end power cords with this brand is not as large as with other amplifier brands. | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? Agree with Elizabeth, when I said I hear subtle improvements it is easily discernible for me but not jaw-droppingly so. And it is worth the cost for this subtle improvement in some of the background detail. One point is that my Hurricane is only... | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? Wow! Okay I’m hoping not going to quite that crazy with power mgmt lol!Have to point out the slight irony in all of your power mgmt lengths you have taken but use a stock cord to the turntable! Probably makes sense though. | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? Thanks All. I had heard the first argument already (from Elizabeth) but was also wondering about “pollution” of the AC line caused by the motor, with the AC line being the same line my amp is plugged into. Unfortunately my amp and eventual turnt... | |
| Importance of impedance matching cartridge with phono stage? Thanks for the responses. The phonostage was added for a turntable/cartridge I will get in the future, and as such I don’t know what cartridge I will get yet. It will be my next addition to my system, and why I cannot do a test with how it sound... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Just an update: sound has continued to develop (The Diablo is up to 50 hours now), albeit very subtly now.I wonder if the large class A bias of the Diablo 300 integrated contributes to a shorter burn-in period. My non-expert theory is that since... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Agreed, so far, changes are subtle, and as I said unlike most gear I've bought in the past, the Diablo sounded great from the moment I plugged it in and tried playing something. It is not like the changes I am noticing are large, and if I wasn't ... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. The additional detail that is starting to come through is just adding to that “texture” effect to the sounds voices and instruments that I referred to. Why this is so satisfying is that this detail is so fine-grained that it takes on a satin-smoo... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Hi All,At about 36 hours in, the Diablo sounds much as it did before, but definitely with a bit more detail and sound-staging. So that I can detect the differences, I’ve been cycling through the same 25 tracks or so.I didn’t mean to imply that th... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. No, I have a new AudioQuest Hurricane Hi-Current power cord now. Rshad said he had trouble actually hearing much difference between power cords with the Diablo. Maybe because the power regulation is very good so the PC doesn’t seem to do much? I w... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Thanks inna rshad. Inna, yes, I have an Audioquest Diamond USB cable and yes it definitely makes a noticeable difference over a standard cheap USB cable. It is 1.5m long. I’ve never heard that it is better to have a USB cable LONGER than 5ft. Are ... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Thanks Inna, good advice. My local dealer is really good about loaning demo cables. Regarding Van den Hul, I've always liked them as they tended to smooth out rough edges of harshness in an even way while still being engaging. However, with the... |