User Manual

pressure waves in the upper frequency enclosures, for cleaner,

clearer mid and high frequencies. By reducing the enclosure

to its most basic form, a floor-standing open panel, Gryphon

Trident ll takes mid and high frequency clarity and articulation

to an entirely new level.

AMT super tweeter

The extreme high-frequency range is handled by an array of

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

Trident ll AMT employs a heat-resistant Kapton film base, alu-

minium 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 Trident ll high frequency panel presents a purely resistive

load, significantly reducing demands on the partnering ampli-

fier, although the system’s unrivalled transparency and resolu-

tion 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 Trident ll 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 Trident ll system set new standards for audio vir-

tues such as resolution, timbre and soundstaging, illuminating

the music in ways previously experienced only occasionally

in glimpses or fragments of a speaker’s overall performance,

but rarely in a true full-range system.

Like every Gryphon product, Gryphon Trident ll is designed

by Gryphon founder and CEO Flemming E. Rasmussen and

manufactured in Denmark. The Gryphon Trident ll is a decla-

ration of love to music and a finely crafted sculptural element

to grace even the most luxurious of surroundings.

AMT tweeter