and which speakers we rec-
ommend. Our answer has
always been that we recom-
mend the speaker that sounds
best in the room in which it
will be used. When we use the
term “best” we mean correct
and realistic in musical terms,
essentially neutral, but with all
the dynamics and excitement
of listening to live music. We
find headroom, ambience and
tonal coherency to be key ele-
ments in the live music expe-
rience.
The Gryphon Mojo s
monitors
The Cabinet
In order to live up to the
uncompromising design goal
of perfect phase all the time at
all frequencies, the enclosure
incorporates a concave curved
front to form a direct angled,
time-aligned system with
identical distance from the lis-
tener to the acoustic center of
each driver. This is the only
way of ensuring a true timeal-
lingnemnt while maintaining
direct on-axis sound from the
drivers. It is not seen as often
as the usual sloped front that
is much less complicated and
expensive to make.
The Bass Driver
We decided to use two 6 inch
drivers rather than one large
driver. This preovides larger
surface area while maintaing
high driver speed with mini-
mum lag and overhang. This
also allows a more narrov
front, minimising baffle dif-
fraction.
The drivers are employs pulp
paper cones, chosen for excel-
lent linearity and controlled
behaviour outside its used fre-
quency range, eliminating
invasive correction to reduce
the negative effects of cone
break-up.
The die-cast basket is a very
ridgid, but open, structure
preventing compression
behind the cone, even the
area behind the spider is ven-
tilated, allowing the spider to
work freely.- These qualities
are basics in the
Duelund/Gryphon design phi-
losophy of designing and buil-
ding the “correct” drivers rat-
her than “fixing it in the mix,”
as is often the case. - for
obvious economical reasons.
The Tweeter
By unfair tradition, the twee-
ter is always the star of the
show. To much focus is often
placed on an exotic tweeter
that may be outstanding, but
being the star, often fails to
play along with the rest of the
band. At Gryphon we believe
in an “all star” approach to
qualify, each driver must be
able and willing to join the
team to create a complete,
seamless speaker with a uni-
form performance across the
band, not only in terms of fre-
quency but just as much in its
subjective nature and appro-
ach to the task.
In this case, we do use a truly
exotic tweeter that was the
natural star without being
“forced” into the concept. The
Tweeter is a Air Motion
Transformer units with a
extremely light metal diaphra-
me, providing lightning fast
response combined with flat
frequency response up and
beyond 38kHz with extremely
