Best Of Both Worlds; The Cabinet - Gryphon Cantata Owner's Manual

matches the high performance
of Gryphon amplification and the
very best from other manufactur-
ers. The flexible unit can be
interfaced with the sound system
in many ways and can work per-
fectly with integrated amplifiers
without preout/main-in connec-
tions via the tape loop.

Best of Both Worlds

The result is amazing, ground-
breaking performance from a
speaker this size. The Cantata
combines the best of both
worlds, all of the recognized
virtues of the small speaker with-
out the constricted low end out-
put. The Cantata offers refer-
ence class, real, articulated
deep bass response.
The smooth, controlled frequen-
cy roll-off of the speaker also
provides excellent phase char-
acteristics, the fundamental ele-
ment in obtaining realistic sound-
stage reproduction
addressing perhaps one of the
most acute human senses, our
instinctive ability to
objects in three-dimensional
space based on sound alone.

The Cabinet

In many ways, the cabinet
design of a speaker is a night-
mare of compromises and the
ultimate challenge to both audio
designer and furniture stylist.
To perform at its best, a tweeter
should ideally be the size of a
pinhead and suspended in free
air, while a woofer requires a
large-volume
larger the better. To design a
cabinet to optimally accommo-
date both drivers is simply
impossible. To design a cabinet
with acceptable compromises is
very difficult and, finally, to
achieve a result that is visually
pleasing is the greatest chal-
lenge of all.
We see
speakers with obvious emphasis
on the sculptural aspect. We
even see ingenious devices dis-
guised as paintings, plants,
rocks, organ pipes and other
shapes. Camouflaging speakers
to be unrecognizable usually
means that the sounds they
make are also unrecognizable
as music.
On the other hand, we find many
no-compromise speaker sys-
tems where emphasis is placed
and in
solely on performance in a "take
no prisoners" attitude. These are
often large, strange contraptions
locate
that require a dedicated listening
room or a tolerant family with a
profound acceptance of offen-
sive furniture.
In the modern home, an expen-
sive speaker system should pro-
vide the highest quality of sound,
and, at the same time, also be
worthy of its prominent place as
a visually attractive element in
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