Burn-In and
Warm-Up
Your Gryphon has been thor-
oughly tested and burned in
before shipping. Performance
will continue to improve during
the first 40 – 50 hours of normal
use. After this period optimum
performance will be reached
approximately 45 minutes after
turn-on. With the exception of
Class A power amplifiers, we
recommend leaving your
Gryphon components powered
up at all times.
Balanced
Connections
All Gryphon products uses the
AES standard for balanced con-
nections.
1. Ground
2. Positive
3. Negative
We recommend the use of dedi-
cated balanced cables. Avoid the
use of adaptors as they degrade
performance.
Choice of Cables
Because your Mikado is a high-
resolution audio device, it will
immediately reveal the charac-
teristics and possible limitations
of the other components in your
system, as well as those of the
interconnects and loudspeaker
cables used to connect your sys-
tem.
Wiring should never be utilized
as "equalizers" to correct errors
elsewhere in the system.
Instead, any error should be cor-
rected at the source, so that
interconnects and loudspeaker
cables can be selected solely on
the basis of sonic neutrality. For
this reason, we employ
Gryphon's own range of inter-
connects and cables in every
stage of the design of every
Gryphon product.
Placing the
Mikado
1.Do not place the Mikado on
top of power amplifiers or other
components that contains large
power supplies.
2.Pay attention to the routing of
AC cords to keep them from
interfering with audio intercon-
nects.
3. Keep interconnects as short
as practical possible.
Connections
The backside of the Mikado is
very strait forward and features
A. 1 Pair of analoqe outputs to
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We recommend the use of dedi-
cated balanced cables. Avoid the
use of adaptors as they degrade
performance.