Summary of Contents for Gryphon Cantata
- Page 1 Cantata Owner´s Manual Can-ta-ta A musical composition, often using sacret text, comprising recitatives, arisa and choruses.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
The Cantata Q Controller..Best of both worlds....The Cabinet......The Drivers......Set-up........Assembling the Speaker..Connecting the Q Control..Cantata and the listening room 17 Speaker placement....Selecting the Q Factor..Break-in........ Room placement....Manufacture and Assembly Choice of cables.... -
Page 3: Introduction
Gryphon Audio even in the loudest passages Designs of Denmark. Your new are also high priorities. To Gryphon unit has been painstak- achieve these objectives, ingly designed to re-create the Gryphon products offer excep-... -
Page 4: The Man
The Man Following the immediate suc- cess of the Gryphon brand, all Gryphon Audio Designs is the import business was phased out brainchild Flemming in 1993, so that Rasmussen Rasmussen and the fulfillment of could dedicate his efforts entire- a lifelong dream to allow the ly to Gryphon. -
Page 5: The Gryphon Master Tape Collection
Gryphon is located in beautiful tranquil sur- roundings. ty of the original musical per- formance. -
Page 6: Cantata Design Story
Cantata design story dedicated, purpose-built listen- ing room. Most of us listen to As with all things known to man, music in a room that also serves loudspeakers are subject to the as the living room. There are laws of physics and to the limita- several ways to address this tions of human perception. -
Page 7: The Bass
This is caused/supported Gryphon Audio Designs in the acoustic phenomenon called outskirts of the small town of Ry “room gain”, the room’s automat- ic amplification of lower frequen-... -
Page 8: The Smaller Speaker
The Gryphon Cantata do not suffer from these prob- lems, but only because their At Gryphon we have over the small enclosure and drivers can- years made similar observations not generate enough energy to and faced the challenge of small provide deep bass and conse- rooms at shows and elsewhere. -
Page 9: The Design
The Cantata design team is the less demanding market for original team from 1995. -
Page 10: The Cantata Q Controller
The Cantata is the fruit of all our acoustic profile defined by differ- experiments and accumulated ent parameters; in this case, the observations, a floor-standing crucial parameter is the acoustic speaker with a small footprint Q of the room. The acoustic Q is... -
Page 11: Best Of Both Worlds
The result is amazing, ground- lenge of all. breaking performance from a many “interesting” speaker this size. The Cantata speakers with obvious emphasis combines the best of both on the sculptural aspect. We worlds, all of the recognized even see ingenious devices dis-... - Page 12 Cantata are angled towards an high inner damping. imaginary centerline extending The bottom section of the speak- from the direct-firing tweeter at er system employs the same the center of the front baffle.
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Page 13: The Drivers
For a truly cus- In the Cantata, we chose not to tomized finish, it is possible to follow this well-trodden path. in order panels with textiles, carpet,... - Page 14 Because the well-documented and rightly feared dramatic break-up modes characteristic of Titanium and other metal domes typically require extensive crossover intervention, such drivers are not employed Gryphon Cantata, maintaining the pristine simplicity of its design.
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Page 15: Set-Up
1 Pair of Gloves 1 Acrylic polish Due to the room adapting 1 DC Bias cable design of the Cantata bi-wiring 1 AC Power cords or bi-amping is not possible. 1 Warranty card The speaker cables should be... -
Page 16: Connecting The Q Control
Connecting the Q connected to the Input of your pre-amplifier or integrated Controller amplifier. The Q-Controllercan be con- nected in three ways dependent on your system. 2. Connecting between pre- and power amplifier 1. If CD as your only source You can connect either bal- Connect between the source anced (XLR) or single-ended... -
Page 17: Cantata And The Listening Room
Q of your listening The Q Controller is designed to room. work only with the Cantata sys- tem and can not be used with As a rule of thumb you should any other speaker system as it... -
Page 18: Speaker Placement
Speaker Placement and The Cantata also allows you to experiment with tilting of the Toe-in speaker. In instances where you have a high listening position Placement of your Cantata is you can tilt the Cantata back- critical to the quality of your lis- ward by adjusting the spike tening experience. -
Page 19: Selecting The Q Factor
Selecting the Q The Low-Cut filter factor While playing uneven LPs your On the front panel your Cantata playback system might create comes with 3 standard settings, subsonic noise. Since the 1 personal setting and a Bypass Cantata has a very high bass option. -
Page 20: Room Placement
Room placement RW x .447 RW x .276 Do not scale... -
Page 21: Manufacture And Assembly
Manufacture and Input Connections Assembly Balanced mode All Gryphon products use the At our laboratories and manufac- AES standard for balanced con- turing facilities in Denmark, we nections. maintain full control over every aspect of development and pro- 1. Ground duction, and the members of our 2. -
Page 22: Care And Maintenance
Gryphon's own range of inter- Tweak Alert connects and cables in every In the best Gryphon tradition we stage of the design of every have spent a huge amount of Gryphon product. time with our prototypes before we release a new product. We... -
Page 23: Warranty
Warranty ing injuries to persons or proper- The Gryphon Cantata is warrant- To qualify, the enclosed warranty against failures arising registration card must be filled through faulty workmanship and out and returned to the manufac- materials for a period of 2 years turer within 10 days of purchase. -
Page 24: Specifications
120 x 40 x 45 cm. Thank you Weight: 80 kgs Products, features, and specifica- The Gryphon Team wishes to expess our tions are the most recently available gratitude and respect to Mr. Steen Duelund that has served as an endless source of...