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If you’re an audiophile who wants distributed audio around the house you’ve got plenty of choice of manufacturers to favour. Well, Gryphon would like to add them to their list, and their Mirage amplifier is just the product they’re planning to lure you in with. A pre-amp main box with detachable control section that can communicate wirelessly, as well as a chunky aluminium remote that they’re insisting on calling a wand, it takes advantage of the AMX and Crestron interface software (sold separately) that Gryphon have developed to integrate as a multi-room audio system.
It’s not cheap, though – €16,900, or $21,188, excluding sales tax - and it’ll need professional installing if you want the results to live up to the capabilities. There are some very very high-resolution images available here (we’re talking 50mb a file, people).
2 Responses to “Gryphon Mirage delivers audiophile distributed audio”
Ron Lapporte November 23, 2006
As a US deler for Gryphon Audio Design products, I’d like to help clarify any misconceptions about the new and innovative Mirage pramplifier. Perhaps the facts are most clearly deliniated by Gryphon Audio Design’s Flemming Rasmussen:
What the Mirage is not:
1. The Mirage is not a Home Theatre product in any sense. It is a
preamplifier.
2. The Mirage has no multiroom control facilities.
3. The Mirage can only control the Mirage. The Mirage can be controlled by
remote systems from AMX or Creston.
What the Mirage is:
1. The most outstanding preamplifier in Gryphon’s history with a sound
quality above anything else before.
2. It is a preamplifier with utmost attention to sonic qualities but with a
innovative design that allow the owner to showcase it indifferent
configurations – or not at all. Please see the 3 examples in the brochure.
3. The Mirage is showing the future of Ultra high end Stereo products, that
has something for the critical lover of music AND design.
We hope that this profile of the Mirage will place it correctly in your
perception of the product and its potential.
We believe that the Mirage is a Gryphon Milestone product and with the
Mirage we wish to share this exciting future with you,..
For further information or to order any of the Gryphon Audio Design components within the USA, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Ron Lapporte
NeutralUltimate Audio Video
(847) 977-0220
http://www.ultimateaudio-video.com
Ewdison Then November 23, 2006
Thanks for the info Ron
Neutral