Pendragon

Pendragon is a name historically associated with ancient kings of the Britons, most famously, Arthur of Camelot. The figurative title Pendragon or Pen Draig means head or chief dragon, symbolising the bearer’s uncontested leadership.

As we launch the Gryphon Pendragon, the most ambitious reference loudspeaker system in the history of Gryphon Audio Designs, we feel that it is a fitting name.

Pendragon employs a further refinement of the self-powered bass tower made famous in its predecessor, the revolutionary Gryphon Poseidon system Pendragon pairs it with four Air Motion Transformer (AMT) drivers and a two-meter tall ribbon in an open baffle configuration for ideal coverage of an exceptionally wide frequency range extending from 16 Hz to 32 kHz.

Unlike compromised, “universal” amplifiers, the Pendragon bass amp has been conceived and built exclusively for optimal integration with the system’s custom-built drive units, rigid cabinet and flexible, user-adjustable room integration controls, for a level of performance unachievable by any standard mix-and-match approach.

The transparency, speed and spine-tingling musical realism of the resulting system set new standards for audio virtues 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.