Gryphon Pendragon User Manual
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four extraordinary Air Motion Transformers that move air by
driving an extremely low-mass folded sheet in a semi-perpen-
dicular motion via a powerful magnetic field. Following exten-
sive research into materials and diaphragm geometry, the
Pendragon AMT employs a heat-resistant Kapton film base,
aluminium conductor traces and an innovative fold geometry.
Because of their large surface area and pleated structure, the
Air Motion Transformers move a large air volume with minimal
diaphragm motion for lightning fast transients with flat freq-
uency response well beyond the audible range with negligible
distortion and a total absence of compression.
The AMT array incorporates an attenuator for ideal fine-tuning
and integration with the acoustics of the listening space. ( +1 –
neutral – 1 db )
The Pendragon high frequency panel presents a purely resi-
stive load, significantly reducing demands on the partnering
amplifier, although the system’s unrivalled transparency and
resolution deserve to be mated with the finest amplification
and source components.
The radical passive crossover network design ensures ideal
phase at all frequencies, a perfect result achieved only by
Gryphon loudspeaker.
The Pendragon system's low-frequency cut-off is room-depen-
dent and is also a result of the user-selected Q setting, but use-
able room response from the system's 26 drivers will cover the
range from 16 Hz to 40 kHz.
The transparency, speed and spine-tingling musical realism of
the Gryphon Pendragon system set new standards for audio
virtues such as resolution, timbre and soundstaging, illumina-
ting the music in ways previously experienced only occasio-
nally in glimpses or fragments of a speaker’s overall
performance, but rarely in a true full-range system.
Like every Gryphon product, Gryphon Pendragon is designed
by Gryphon founder and CEO Flemming E. Rasmussen and
manufactured in Denmark. The Gryphon Pendragon towers are
our proudest statement, our declaration of love to music and a
finely crafted sculptural element to grace even the most luxu-
rious of surroundings.