Gryphon Kodo, Owner'S Manual

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The stacked modules incorporate additional 8 mm aluminium
panel supports.
The form moulded curved cosmetic exterior panels of lami-
nated High-Density Fibreboard are damped with bitumen.
The solid aluminium base for each tower is fitted with ad-
justable, polyoxometalate feet.
The Kodo upper-frequency towers are laid out in a symmetri-
cal vertical array of four 4”, exclusive Gryphon midrange driv-
ers (two directly above and two directly below the central AMT
high frequency driver) and six 5” Gryphon midbass drivers
(three at the top and three at the bottom) to complement the
bold design of the bass towers.
Each Gryphon Kodo bass tower houses eight custom designed
8” drive units and a built-in Gryphon power amplifier capable
of 1,000 Watts continuous output into the drivers. For ultimate
headroom, peak power is approximately 4,000 Watts or 4.5
horsepower.
The integrated bass system is conceived and born with a sin-
gle purpose in life - to drive one specific set of drivers in one
specific enclosure across a very narrowly defined frequency
band. This is specialist audio at its ultimate extreme. Com-
pared to the Gryphon Kodo, any so-called system, assembled
from an assortment of unrelated products will inevitably fall
short.
Gryphon Kodo offers highly desirable features such as remote
adjustment of bass level from the listening position, low and
high cut filters and a user-selectable bass system Q, an ex-
tremely important factor as matching system Q to the listening
room’s own Q is the gateway to superior bass performance.
In Perfect Phase
Like every loudspeaker ever made by Gryphon, the Gryphon
Kodo incorporates specially developed Duelund Constant
Phase technologies to ensure that all drivers are in phase at all
frequencies at all times.
Based on the ground-breaking synchronous filter theories de-
veloped by the late Danish mathematician Steen Duelund,
Gryphon loudspeakers achieve inter-driver phase, phase-
matched behaviour between multiple drivers that no other
manufacturer can claim.
When we say that our speakers are in perfect phase, we mean
that the drivers maintain the same relative phase across all fre-
quencies. This is one of the keys to achieving the best sound
from any loudspeaker system.
In order to live up to the uncompromising design goal of per-
fect phase all the time at all frequencies, the Gryphon Kodo
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