The Ayon Audios players are exceptions to this rule as with them one moves the flap on and off manually.

What draws attention is not only its fantastic construction, but also a beautiful logotype depicting a griffina mythical creature with a lions body and an eagles head and wings.

We test the latest and most expensive CD player from this company, the ETHOS.

And yet it is a digital format that has its years, technically outdated and considered by many music lovers as a dead end, and even the end of real music.

However, we do this deliberately, not agreeing to zero-one treatment of audio formats, at least the most successful ones.

Unambiguous and exclusionary approach to this topic resembles religion, and religion is not negotiable.

However, because I have my own opinion, I have to add something: I think that a well-prepared CD can sound insanely good.

In the second half of the 1990s, Gryphon Audio Designs began working on its first digital source, the CDP-1 Tabu player.

This choice was also not dictated by the desire to increase sales through expanding brands portfolio.

What happened was simply a result of growing frustration due to the large differences in sound quality experienced by designers and experienced members of Gryphons listening panels, when they compared the original, analogue, coming from the Gryphon archive, copies of master tapes with a typical CD.

It turned out that the problem was not in the format itself, but in how it was used.

Rasmussen has remained faithful to it to this day, despite the fact that the companys story began with a unique phono preamplifier (step-up), and the basic reference source in the evaluation of any design are the analog master tapes referred.

It featured SYNCHRONOUS (company materials mistakenly refer to it as asynchronous) 2488.2 upsampling.

In November 2001, in its development version, the 2496 ASYNCHRONOUS upsampling was used.

The next step was a special version of this device, Mikado Signature from September 2008, and already in January a year later a slightly cheaper SCORPIO model was presented.

In 2017, a new version was developed, the SCRORPIO S model.

For the first time, its device has a completely different shape than a regular box.

Its main body is an equilateral triangle, but the display with touch buttons goes slightly forward, hence the specification shows that its dimensions are 480 x 173 x 453 mm (width x height x depth).

The most well-known are the triangles associated with the companys names - turntables by the American company Triangle ART and the French manufacturer of speakers Triangle Manufacture Electroacoustique in the latter case its mainly about the logo ( Leema Acoustics also has a triangular logo).

And this type of support isas we know since the times of Leonardo da Vincithe best possible one.

And it is hard to understand why such solutions are so rare in audio.

In top-loaders, the disc is placed directly on the motor axis or the main bearing axis, as in C.E.C.

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The flap can be slid to the side or moved up and downboth the older Mikado and the new Ethos feature the latter option.

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