Feeling rich on the budget: Gryphon Tabu Century speaker amplifier clone review!

Here we gooooo ❤

Beautiful construction

There is another Polish HiFi reviewer, 'VirtualHiFi', who has some of the best sounding audio test recordings I have heard on yt. No idea what gear he uses but it certainly sounds good in his videos.

The small dark blue capacitors are from Panasonic. FC range - good quality.

Hi Greg! Great video. Nice quality construction!
I'm still very happy with my Transaudio D5 Pro that can finally drive my KEF reference Three Two's like they want. Now running daily for six months. Have you seen - there is now a Transaudio D9 Pro (like the D5 Pro) with XLR inputs.
The JC 2 preamplifier saga is still ongoing - I sent it back to Sheng Teng Electronics Store and am now awaiting a replacement.
All the best, Rob in Switzerland

Bello! Se solo avessero un telecomando 😅

Whene the naim integrated review? Thx

Nice build but don't they realise that by including a remote operated pot they would likely double sales? Who is using an integrated amplifier without R/C these days? In addition, this amplifier looks NOTHING (again, I've mentioned this before with clones) like it's genuine name sake, the Gryphon Taboo. This seems a common theme with all these clones. If anyone is in any doubt just google the real article and see for yourself. In fact, many of these clones seem to follow/have similar internal construction/layout to each other. I don't want to diminish the value one is (probably) getting with one of these but I wished they would stop using the genuine brand's name and nomenclature in association. These have little to do with the real thing/s. Thanks for the review

Your reviews are greatly appreciated, I am awaiting the arrival of my D5 Pro...yes, as per your review! Pozdrowienia z Australji!

The blue with gold -ve stripe capacitors you point out are Panasonic FC s.

Did the original have XLRs

sounds like you found a winner

Was the faster amp you were remembering maybe the Brumester 933? I was also wondering if you've enjoyed the FM255 preamp. The first look was intriguing, does it pair well with these various amps? Excellent videos man, really enjoyable 😊

That yellow mkp caps would be my first choice for upgrading ...

My round.......Thanks for your time doing these. Cheers.

Another excellent review. Thank you. I hope your channel grows !!

Thank you for a very detailed review ! Much appreciatef ❤❤❤

If this amp was sold through a conventional distributor/dealer, it would cost every bit of $2500.
Factory direct is the new marketing model

Thanks!

Nothing like Gryphon Tabu......blah blah blah......

Any idea on DarTZeel 108 with MBL pre circuit?

You talk about volume up by remote... so with preamp, or dac volume?

Construction looks ace but the transformator a bit lost/undersized in there. Keep up the good work👌👍

I am interested in this amp. Will you make a group sound test comparison of all those amps???

Nice review. How does it compare with the fm300?

i am waiting on the FM trans amp review also! your channel is going to blow up! good job!

One silly out of the topic question.. let say the system has two monoblocks power amp.. i can move the monoblock position to adjust the distance of speaker cables and intercinneciton cables
Do you want to have a shorter speaker cables or shorter xlr balanced interconnection cables..simply does speaker cables or the xlr balanced intercommection has more interference to the signal?

It is a tempting amp!

Transformer is way too small for the rated power. Primary filter capacitors are very poor quality, (non audiophile grade) and not even 105 C rated. Point to point wiring looks sloppy.

The original amp, has 0.07% THD, while this 0.0014%. Such number, very difficult to get even with NFB. Then, that amp runs cool, so this is not a class A, not a regular class A at least. So how that .0014% THD possible?
Or there is a circuit, with NFB, and this is not exactly Gryphon Century, or the seller made a mistake with the numbers.
And here, we coming to interesting moment: there are unique measurements of amplifier, like temperature, power draw, output voltage at idle, that I never saw before, but amplifier, is a bit more, than just heater, or battery charger. There is interesting to see, the real THD vs power and frequency, noise floor, IMD. Really, the gear, to perform these measurements costs half of the price of the reviewed clone.
And this is not all. I saw very interesting approach of one guy, that reviewed audio gear also: in addition to objective measurements of amp, he just left the precision ADC connected to the loudspeaker terminal, while playing music. Then he shared a links, to the audio files, captured just from the amplifier output, giving possibility to watchers listen not only subjective thoughts of the reviewer, but the actual voice of the gear.

Do you feel all of these clones sound better than your Cambridge Audio amps so far?

Thanks for your grat reviews, and keep up the good work! Greetings from Norway!
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It would be nice if you set up a table or something where you can compare all of the amplifiers you have reviewed. They are a lot and it could ease up the buying process

oh… those chips. hmm so what class is this considered? sorry if i missed that detail!

i don’t understand why caps on left side are different (looking) than on right side…?

so do you do any actual testing on distortion, wattage, damping factor etc on things?

thanks for any insights

Thanks for the review.

The 12 big, green filter capacitors are from the south korean samwha capacitor group. I don't think that they are really bad.

Greetings from Germany,

Michael

These smaller capacitors looks like Panasonic FC series. If these are original- that is WOW! These are really decend sounding caps….

Just bought Dartzeel after your great review. And I am happy like hell!

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Ty

I really enjoy and appreciate your insight and video reviews. The Gryphon seems like a sweet integrated amp, I actually purchased a Dartzeel clone D9 w/balanced and have just eclipsed the 300 burn in and it sounds great thank you! I was wondering if you might recommend a phono preamplifier/ phono stage

Hope for a November coupon to purchase D5pro

Hello , first i want to say we really appreciate what you do for us, helping us decide . Just wanted to ask you , there are some purifi amplifiers sold in China , like 1ET400 from Suqiya . Really curios about these class D amps ... Di9d you have the chance to compare a class D with lets say Dartzeel clone ? Thank you

Another gd review, keep up your great work, really thankful for your passion & effort.
Just curious if a preamp output voltage mite or will
saturate the line input stage of the integrated amp?

Even though all my gear are the real McCoy’s, I find these clones fascinating. Great channel and content.