Denmark’s Gryphon Audio Designs has introduced the Gryphon Scorpio CD player. The Scorpio is Gryphon’s second player in the current line, with the first being the flagship Mikado Signature. It reportedly shares “many of the breakthrough technologies developed for that unit.” The Scorpio features asynchronous 32-bit/192kHz sample-rate conversion, an aluminium disc tray, a front-load design, and silvered mica capacitors.
According to Gryphon founder and CEO Flemming E. Rasmussen, “Adding a second compact disc-only source component to the Gryphon line-up at a time when other brands are making a big song and dance out of abandoning the CD player altogether is just another instance of Gryphon’s willingness to pursue our own path when we perceive it to be the most direct path to better music in the home.” The Gryphon Scorpio will retail for 6950 € (no USD price specified).