PC for Gryphon Diablo 300

@questforhifi It sounds like you are very familiar with all top notch power cords and brands. The only thing I have to add this discussion, is give this a shot:

Yes, less than $1,000, but, you may be surprised

@questforhifi not to stray too far off topic here but what are your thoughts on the Diablo 300? Thanks.

I had the opportunity to hear a Gyphon integrated in a $50k system a few years back and I was very impressed. The owner also had an Ayre pre + amp and he liked the gryphon a lot.

One word of caution - these are great amps, but both these amps had serous issues with using high capacitance speaker cables - to the point where they oscilated to the point of failure, so select cables with a lower capacitance value

I would steer clear of cables that have a capacitance higher than 150 pf/ft - but that also depends on the length of your cables.

Both these amps need great cables - so look at brands like Zevfino or in-Akustik - but check with the company  with regards to thei cable capacitance first

Regards - Steve

@arch2 it’s superb. The process to get the amp was quite tedious i had many on trial. I tried many amps including: the parasound JC1+ monos, ayre, pass 250, hegel h590, and i even tested the m/c900 pair (excellent btw) but the diablo was the cream of the crop. It gave me everything that I’m looking for and punches above its pricepoint. Extended treble response but smooth. Effortless it just has so much power and can really drive even the most difficult loads. One thing that pushed it over the top compared to the luxman was the diablos bass.

Overall its very quite and highly resolving. My search has endend and i plan to keep it for a long time! I haven’t heard it with the optional dac so cant comment on that part but It’s just really good amp.

@thyname I’ve been hearing more and more about Zavfino. It’s certainly Intriguing . curious if they have a trial period