Kalliope Owner´s Manual
Table of Contents: Introduction Burn-in and warm-up Choice of cables Unpacking User instructions Display information Menu Guide Kalliope connections Warranty 3 9 9 10 11 12 14 15 18
love of the live music experience in all its sonic and emotional glory. Introduction Welcome to the global family of proud owners of fine audio components from Gryphon Audio Designs of Denmark. Your new Gryphon unit has been painstakingly designed to re-create the sound of live music taking place in its original recorded space.
of creating fine home audio components. We know that you will appreciate and enjoy the benefits of our accumulated experience and share our abiding passion for music. Flemming E. Rasmussen painting 1967 The Gryphon Head Amp 1985 the brainchild of Flemming E. Rasmussen and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream to allow the purest essence of the live music experience to be recreated in the home environment.
legendary Gryphon Head Amp, grew from a one-off spare time project developed only for the designers’ own home systems. Although the Gryphon project was initially strictly a hobby, not an actively pursued commercial venture, demand generated by reviews and word-ofmouth led to the formal establishment of Gryphon Audio Designs as a separate corporate entity.
every Gryphon design has been built to cruise effortlessly through even the most demanding musical passages, regardless of volume level, with a musical presentation defined by supreme articulation and immediacy, subtle dynamic shading and razor-sharp focus. Refinement and delicacy are combined with power and authority for a natural, involving listening experience.
The implementation of circuits with wideband frequency response is a painstaking endeavor in which the actual layout and ground pattern of the PC boards are crucial to the achievement of superior sonic performance with no loss of inherent stability. Wideband frequency response ensures the high slew rate essential to the realistic handling of the ultra-fast transients which routinely occur in live music and is crucial in recreating the natural decay of musical instruments.
carefully laid out in order to achieve superior sonic performance with no loss of stability. Component layout has been designed to ensure the shortest conceivable signal path. Exhaustive investigation underlies the selection of every component part and many original, proprietary components are custom-built exclusively for Gryphon. Because what is left out is just as important as what goes in, an absolute minimum of internal wiring is included.
Printed circuit boards are assembled by a supplier of precision military and medical equipment with strict standards of quality control and pre-inspection of components. Chassis parts are manufactured by a specialist chosen solely for the outstanding quality of workmanship. In every aspect of every Gryphon product, the same stringent standards of excellence apply.
the high level of fit and finish which we achieve. To maintain your Gryphon components in pristine condition, please follow these simple instructions. Metal surfaces may be cleaned with a damp cloth. Some product made for treatment of vinyl interiors in cars may be useful. Test the product on a non-visible surface, before using any fluids. Unpacking During unpacking and installation, please take care to avoid scratching the Gryphon Kalliope.
USER INSTRUCTIONS ON/STB touch button: Green color when ON and Red color when in standby mode. Blue LED indicator to the left of ON/STB symbol: 1. Blinking tree times in STANDBY mode indicates wrong mains voltage. 2. Blinking in ON mode indicates that the USB Super-Cap supply is being charged. The blue LED indicator stops blinking when the 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.
Changes the Kalliope input down by one step. Changes the Kalliope input up by one step. DISPLAY information: 1. Actual input number (1 to 5) 2. FS: actual sample frequency. 3. Input name, which can be changed via the menu 4. Actual format being played, PCM or DSD 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 .
Delay) digital filter. 3. DSD: ‘50kHz’ -3dB pass band frequency (default). 4. DSD: ‘60kHz’ -3dB pass band frequency. 5. 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.
a. 100%, full brightness (default) b. 75% c. 50% d. 25% e. 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. 6.‘NAME INPUT’. This menu item makes it possible to name each Kalliope input with a standard pre-defined name or a custom chosen name.
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. S/PDIF INPUT 2-4: Connect digital sources with single-ended 75Ohm output to these inputs.
This de-jittered XLR* output, outputs the actual selected INPUT 1, 2, 3 or 4 signal. WORD CLOCK IN/OUT: The word clock signal, from an external reference clock generator, on this input synchronizes the internal digital signal, from the actual selected 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 – 5Vpp amplitude and between 22.0 kHz to 192.0 kHz, duty cycle typ. 50/50%.
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. The 12V link OUTPUT connector, outputs +12VDC when the Kalliope is ON. Mini Jack Mono connectors with + on the tip are to be used. Left channel Analog outputs: Single-ended RCA and balanced XLR*. CHGND (chassis ground) connector.
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 product was purchased. All claims under this warranty must be made to the distributor in the buyer`s country by returning the unit securely packed in the original box with all accessories, postage/freight prepaid and insured.
