Gryphon Audio Designs, based in Denmark, has announced the fourth member of its loudspeaker line, the Pantheon. This new model slots into the Gryphon lineup as the brand's most compact floorstanding model alongside the larger Pendragon and Trident II models. The standmounted Mojo is the smallest Gryphon loudspeaker.
Like Gryphon's other speakers, the Pantheon employs proprietary constant-phase technologies to ensure that all drivers are in phase at all frequencies at all times, allowing the Gryphon Pantheon to "recreate the original acoustic event with holographic realism and ultimate resolution," according to Gryphon Audio Design's press release on April 9.
Other details described in the press press include the use of "an extraordinary Air Motion Transformer (AMT) drive unit with an extremely low-mass folded-metal diaphragm capable of instantaneous response and a highly desirable point-source sonic presentation. The Pantheon cone drivers are made in Denmark by Scan-Speak to Gryphon’s exacting specifications and custom designed for low Q and minimal dynamic compression. The dual 8” bass drivers and dual 5” midrange units are specially developed with tightly focused, ultra-linear motor systems for maximum force and focus and total control of the motion of the layer-damped fiberglass cones.
"The fourth-order filter network is based exclusively on the finest components (Duelund, Jensen, Holm, Mundorf) in a layout carefully calculated to eliminate electromagnetic interaction and fitted to a decoupling platform to prevent vibration. The crossover network is pre-biased by a 28V battery for constant charge to the electrolytic capacitors in the impedance-correction circuit. Battery-biased 'class A' operation ensures a smoother, more richly detailed three-dimensional presentation. The hand-adjusted Pantheon crossover network performs with impeccable precision and transparency.
"The five-driver, three-way Gryphon Pantheon is housed in a sleek, tall, massively braced sculpted enclosure with precisely contoured modular baffle and driver surrounds and baffle covering carefully selected and applied to effectively address baffle reflections and eliminate diffraction phenomena. Independent baffle elements for each driver break up the pathway through which vibrations would otherwise be transmitted in a single, shared baffle. The five dedicated Pantheon baffles allow precision time alignment of the individual drivers based on the now classic, subtle Gryphon baffle curvature.
"Beneath its stylish exterior, Gryphon Pantheon offers an inert, non-resonant platform for the drive units combining extensive internal bracing and damping material with separate, precision-tuned reflex chambers for the dual bass drivers and an isolated, sealed chamber for the twin midrange units. The side panels are an ingenious modular construction for simple removal and replacement at any time."
Like every Gryphon Audio Designs product, the Pantheon was designed by Gryphon founder and CEO, Flemming E. Rasmussen, and is manufactured in Denmark. The Pantheon will be introduced at the upcoming High End show, held May 15-18, 2014, in Munich, Germany. The price for the Pantheon in Europe is €35,000 per pair (plus local taxes).