Gryphon Audio Commander Pre Amplifier

Our starting point for Commander was Gryphon’s extraordinary Pandora, widely regarded

as one of the world’s finest preamplifiers. Commander shares Pandora’s Dual-Mono

layout with separate chassis for signal and power supply circuitry. Pandora’s single-

ended Class A input buffer is retained, as it offers the compelling advantage of passing

the signal through the smallest possible number of electrical components–two transistors

and a single resistor–yielding sound that is exceptionally transparent, fast, natural and

open. Neither preamplifier employs any global negative feedback

Naturally, Commander embodies major advances in many sonically-critical areas,

including a high-precision, extremely low noise voltage reference in connection with the

analogue series regulators which supply the amplifier stages. The Commander’s voltage

reference has approximately 50 times lower noise than the already-excellent reference

used in Pandora! A pair of fully discrete, linear power supplies feed each channel’s

analog circuit while a third is dedicated to the digital control circuitry, thus maintaining

absolute mechanical separation and electrical isolation between digital and analog

sections.