Gryphon Kalliope Owner's Manual

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Page 1 Kalliope Owner´s Manual...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents: Introduction Burn-in and warm-up Choice of cables Unpacking User instructions Display information Menu Guide Kalliope connections Warranty...
Page 3: Introduction
Introduction love of the live music Welcome to the global experience in all its sonic family of proud owners of and emotional glory. fine audio components from Gryphon Audio Our higher goal is to Designs of Denmark. Your bring to the listener a new Gryphon unit has “You-Are-There”...
Page 4 End audio import compa- gryphon is an appropriate symbol for our high sonic goals. Gryphon Audio Designs was founded in 1985 as an The Man offshoot of 2R Marketing, The Gryphon Head Amp 1985 Gryphon Audio Designs is The first product, the now...
Page 5 Made In Denmark fact that the keen ears of Every product from an experienced listener Gryphon Audio Designs is are the most crucial “cali- designed and built in bration tools.” Therefore, Denmark. This is much every Gryphon product more than just a geo- exists for one simple pur- graphical fact.
Page 6 every Gryphon design subtle inner harmonic terms of voltage and dis- has been built to cruise structure of the musical tortion, Gryphon incorpo- effortlessly through even event, forcing us to work rates heavily regulated most demanding to a higher standard in our multi-stage power sup- musical passages, regard- efforts to maintain the...
Page 7 The implementation of distortion. All Gryphon Vibration-sensitive com- circuits with wideband preamplifiers ponents, capacitors frequency response is a designed with zero, or particular, are thus guar- painstaking endeavor in extremely low, negative anteed a non-resonant which the actual layout feedback. Gryphon power environment.
Page 8 carefully laid out in order s i n g l e , w e l l - d e f i n e d The peerless finish, build to achieve superior sonic objective: musical purity. quality, ergonomics and performance with no loss In the interest of ultimate pride of ownership that of stability.
Page 9: Burn-In And Warm-Up
Printed circuit boards are plug for optimum per- Choice of Cables assembled by a supplier formance. Because your Kalliope is a of precision military and high-resolution Gryphon medical equipment with Burn-In and Warm-Up audio device, it will imme- strict standards of quality...
Page 10: Unpacking
Unpacking During unpacking and installation, please take care to avoid scratching the Gryphon Kalliope. Hard, sharp objects such as tools should not be nearby during this process. You might want to remove your wrist- watch, rings or other jew- ellery before handling the preamplifier.
Page 11: User Instructions
USB Super-supply is fully charged. 3. Blue LED is on when the VFD display is OFF. Display OFF mode can be chosen in the Kalliope menu. When on, the signal through the Kalliope DAC is muted. Mute mode is indicated in the VFD display.
Page 12: Display Information
5. Kalliope locked/unlocked to input signal, indicated by padlock symbol. 6. Actual Digital Filter being used Changes the Kalliope DAC’s digital filter slope for PCM or DSD formats: 1 .PCM: ‘SLOW’ indicates Slow Roll Off (short Group Delay) digital filter (default).
Page 13 DSD: ‘70kHz’ -3dB pass band frequency. Selectable up-sampling, under the following conditions: PCM format below Fs=200kHz. When ON, the Kalliope up-samples to Fs=210kHz. Up-sampling is ON when the green LED indicator above the ‘UP-SA’ touch button is on. Selectable inversion of the Kalliopes output signal phase.
Page 14: Menu Guide
100%, full brightness (default) OFF, display turns off after 15 sec. Display turns on again when a front button or the Kalliope remote is activated. Display turns automatically off after 15 sec. from last button activation, indicated with the blue LED, to the left of ON/STB button, turning on.
Page 15: Kalliope Connections
Kalliope connections: From left: Mains input: actual working mains voltage is printed on the Serial Number label on the right side. Only connect the Kalliope to the specified voltage! Right channel Analog outputs: Single-ended RCA and balanced XLR*. AES/EBU INPUT 1: Connect a digital source with balanced 110Ohm output to this XLR* input.
Page 16 INPUT 1, 2, 3 or 4, to this reference clock signal. Word clock sync. have to be set to ‘ON’ in the Kalliope menu to be active. The word clock input accepts signals between 0.5Vpp –...
Page 17 Win8 32-64bit, can be downloaded at: www.gryphon-audio.com . 12V LINK IN/OUT: +12VDC on this 12V link INPUT brings the Kalliope DAC from Standby to ON mode. The Kalliope DAC reenters Standby mode when the +12VDC voltage is no longer present.
Page 18: Warranty
Warranty The Kalliope is warranted against failures arising through faulty workmanship and materials for a period of 2 years from date of purchase. The warranty is not transferable. This warranty is only valid in the country where the prod- uct was purchased.