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 the Gryphon’s sound is heavily coloured or anything, it’s not. But I find its sound to have a certain indescribable “glow” to the music that is missing from some of the more analytical gear I tested, such as from SimAudio (which I found to be very incredibly detailed with great sound-staging, but ultimately sterile, dry, and uninteresting). By the way my family still likes the chassis of the SimAudio the best, which I have to agree is extremely high quality. But I like my Gryphon/bat-amp the best.
Hemoncdoc, you are lucky to live near a dealer like that! And, nice system. I’ve not done any serious listening with Sonus Fabers, but from what I’ve heard I’ve really liked them. And it was the Amati’s that I actually heard at the dealer - connected to Naim equipment.
The dealer who I bought the Gryphon from doesn’t allow in-home demos period. I even offered to pay a big sum of cash to facilitate an in-home demo. Guessing they may have had bad experiences with damaged gear, etc. One thing I noticed when I borrowed demo gear from my local shop, is that when I powered on the McIntosh MC452 it stunk like cigarette smoke and had the general smell of other people’s homes! Because my local dealer has loaned me so much gear, and I’ve shopped there most of my life, I’m buying all cables and other things from them.
And no, unfortunately my dealer did not inform me that my demo Gryphon phono board was discontinued. I still have not yet had a chance to discuss this with them. I am doubtful they even were aware of the new board to be honest, but I guess that’s not good either. On the other hand, it appears the new board is almost identical save one new feature, which is support for multiple and custom impedance settings (which I really don’t know if I should care about or not). I will discuss with my dealer this week. Ultimately I’m not too concerned, seeing as my dealer says the demo board I had was not actually ever connected to a turntable, and I got it for a bit less than half the price of a new one. The only thing that could come of this if I cared is that I pay more money, return this board and get a new one. I doubt it is worth doing that.
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 the Gryphon’s sound is heavily coloured or anything, it’s not. But I find its sound to have a certain indescribable “glow” to the music that is missing from some of the more analytical gear I tested, such as from SimAudio (which I found to be very incredibly detailed with great sound-staging, but ultimately sterile, dry, and uninteresting). By the way my family still likes the chassis of the SimAudio the best, which I have to agree is extremely high quality. But I like my Gryphon/bat-amp the best.
Hemoncdoc, you are lucky to live near a dealer like that! And, nice system. I’ve not done any serious listening with Sonus Fabers, but from what I’ve heard I’ve really liked them. And it was the Amati’s that I actually heard at the dealer - connected to Naim equipment.
The dealer who I bought the Gryphon from doesn’t allow in-home demos period. I even offered to pay a big sum of cash to facilitate an in-home demo. Guessing they may have had bad experiences with damaged gear, etc. One thing I noticed when I borrowed demo gear from my local shop, is that when I powered on the McIntosh MC452 it stunk like cigarette smoke and had the general smell of other people’s homes! Because my local dealer has loaned me so much gear, and I’ve shopped there most of my life, I’m buying all cables and other things from them.
And no, unfortunately my dealer did not inform me that my demo Gryphon phono board was discontinued. I still have not yet had a chance to discuss this with them. I am doubtful they even were aware of the new board to be honest, but I guess that’s not good either. On the other hand, it appears the new board is almost identical save one new feature, which is support for multiple and custom impedance settings (which I really don’t know if I should care about or not). I will discuss with my dealer this week. Ultimately I’m not too concerned, seeing as my dealer says the demo board I had was not actually ever connected to a turntable, and I got it for a bit less than half the price of a new one. The only thing that could come of this if I cared is that I pay more money, return this board and get a new one. I doubt it is worth doing that.