nyev
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| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. I prioritize. For example, the car I drive is currently worth $3500 according to Auto trader!Which is perfectly fine by me. Having a system like this gives me far more satisfaction than any car could. Just realized my power cords are worth more t... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Just to follow up on the (extremely mild) pop sound when adjusting the volume, I’ve confirmed that it only occurs with the DAC module input. In fact, it specifically only occurs when using the USB input. If using the optical input, there is no p... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Audiobrian,Glad to have peaked your interest. Do you live near a Gryphon dealer? There are not that many around...I have seen a pro-review that called the Diablo tube-like. While not pure class A of course, the Diablo does give off more heat th... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. Thank hemondoc, and I will try adjusting the volume when using other inputs. To be clear, it doesn’t just happen when adjusting from low volume, it happens when adjusting at high volumes too - on occasion. What I meant was, the very soft and occ... | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? I would hazard a guess that system resolving power is one of many variables that could bottleneck the performance of a power cable or make differences in cords less noticeable. I’d think it also depends on how noisy an environment is, how clean t... | |
| 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 ... |