Amplifier Gryphon Atilla
Atilla has a configuration "dual mono" and truly balanced circuit. He has a dual toroid power company Holmgren 1200 V*A and a total capacity of capacitors in the filter supply 2 x 60,000 uF. Separate transformer feeds the display and service contours. Digital volume control at a fixed resistor with control by the microprocessor has been designed specifically for this amp, and, according to the company, is as transparent as possible for transmitted signal. The output stages of the amplifier operating in Class A/B on the four transistor Sanken, a pair per channel. As an option the Atilla can be equipped with MM/MC-phono module.
The device is an elegant low body on long legs has a cover made of thin aluminum sheet, covered with a plurality of ventilation slots in the back, and thick aluminum plates on the sides for better cooling (Atilla is heated to about 50 degrees pretty soon after switching on). Front mounted familiar to Gryphon acrylic mirror panel with touch controls and a two-line displays, dull characters in the blue-green spectrum. From above for inclusion in the network lights familiar red icon heraldic griffin, and it's a noble winged creature with the firm's name engraved on the cover. The remote is not universal and is intended only to control the amplifier. Rear view of a great pleasure audiophiles trembling relating to adequately organized switching. Separate praiseworthy massive speaker terminals for a better grip fingers, excluding slip provided with rubber rims over the terminals. Plastic bumpers at the bottom of the terminal to help you secure the "blades" without scrolling - well thought-out design. Externally, the unit looks stylish and sophisticated as swift swallow, especially against some of the other participants armor.
Our laboratory Bryston BCD-1 brought in a significant fraction of the sound and grain coarsening. This resulted in excessive emphasizing the foreground and rear leveling; any questions and to wagering powerful dynamic bursts, such as Verdi's Requiem, and separate the uppermost HF. Morality - so perfect and harmonious unit as Atilla, requires a thoughtful selection of the source.
However, even in such an embodiment, Atilla showed most surround sound in the test, filling out the sound of the entire space of the room, perfectly expressed, not exaggerated dense, but tangible and bodily sounds, balanced and harmonious with the first chord, and a soft natural detail. Attempts juicy reproducing the fundamental frequencies of the body proved to be very successful and commendable, and energetic, but not accented attack added saturation and mobility. Sound was a little too dark and thickish, that is typical for younger integrated amplifiers Gryphon, but a great plastic and natural tones and soulful voice with impeccable separate instrumental lines and excellent microdynamics have left no desire to find fault with.
