£360,000

KODO

The Kodo upper-frequency towers are laid out in a symmetrical vertical array of four 4”, exclusive Gryphon midrange drivers (two directly above and two directly below the central AMT high frequency driver) and six 5” Gryphon midbass drivers (three at the top and three at the bottom) to complement the bold design of the bass towers.

THE FOUR TOWERS

To return to the words of www.sixmoons.com – “The engineering team behind Gryphon’s speaker endeavours plays ball in the top leagues.”

Put simply, each Kodo section is a tower of strength and style.

Elegant and deceptively simple, the four towers that make up the Gryphon Kodo system are carefully conceived and executed multi-layer constructions for extreme structural integrity and acoustic damping.

The MDF side panels of the modules are reinforced with 5 mm aluminium panels. The stacked modules incorporate additional 8 mm aluminium panel supports.

The solid aluminium base for each tower is fitted with adjustable, polyoxometalate feet.

The Kodo upper-frequency towers are laid out in a symmetrical vertical array of four 4”, exclusive Gryphon midrange drivers (two directly above and two directly below the central AMT high frequency driver) and six 5” Gryphon midbass drivers (three at the top and three at the bottom) to complement the bold design of the bass towers.

Each Gryphon Kodo bass tower houses eight custom designed 8” drive units and a built-in Gryphon power amplifier capable of 1,000 Watts continuous output into the drivers. For ultimate headroom, peak power is approximately 4,000 Watts or 4.5 horsepower.

The integrated bass system is conceived and born with a single purpose in life – to drive one specific set of drivers in one specific enclosure across a very narrowly defined frequency band. This is specialist audio at its ultimate extreme. Compared to the Gryphon Kodo, any so-called system, assembled from an assortment of unrelated products will inevitably fall short.

Gryphon Kodo offers highly desirable features such as remote adjustment of bass level from the listening position, low and high cut filters and a user-selectable bass system Q, an extremely important factor as matching system Q to the listening room’s own Q is the gateway to superior bass performance.

IN PERFECT PHASE

Like every loudspeaker ever made by Gryphon, the Gryphon Kodo incorporates specially developed Duelund Constant Phase technologies to ensure that all drivers are in phase at all frequencies at all times.

Based on the ground-breaking synchronous filter theories developed by the late Danish mathematician Steen Duelund, Gryphon loudspeakers achieve inter-driver phase, phase-matched behaviour between multiple drivers that no other manufacturer can claim.

When we say that our speakers are in perfect phase, we mean that the drivers maintain the same relative phase across all frequencies. This is one of the keys to achieving the best sound from any loudspeaker system.

Specifications

Four-way twin-tower loudspeaker
Modular construction for enhanced structural integrity and convenient, safe assembly
High frequency tower consists of three independent modules
Duelund Constant Phase crossover for perfect phase at all frequencies at all times
System response 16 – 25,000 Hz, + 3 dB (depending on Q setting and room size)
Separate active crossover network for each channel isolated in bass tower
Remote control for Q setting, Bass Level and Low Cut
Time-aligned front baffle curvature for identical arrival time from all drivers at the listening position
38 customized, extensively modified drive units
Special cone surround termination to eliminate edge reflections
Symmetrical vertical driver array for ideal point source presentation
Mechanically independent baffles for each driver
German Air Motion Transformer high frequency driver
4” midrange drivers with patented technologies and parts mounted in separate sealed chambers
Proprietary Gryphon 5” mid/bass drivers mounted in separate sealed chambers
Hand-adjusted passive mid/high crossover network pre-biased from the bass module
Dual-magnet bass driver motor system for maximum force and precise focus
Eight 8” bass drivers for extreme speed and precision with massive air displacement
Custom designed Gryphon bass tower amplifiers capable of delivering 1000 Watts continuously to the drivers (4 ohms)
Integrated Linkwitz-Greiner Q Controller with choice of pre-set Q settings for ideal low frequency integration in any room
Four sealed bass modules with extensive internal bracing
Pure, natural wool interior damping material
Stylish string grille for driver protection
Virtually unlimited custom finish options
Designed and built in Denmark