Gryphon CDP1 Owner's Manual

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GRYPHON TABU

CDP1 CD PLAYER

By Gryphon Audio Designs

TABU CDP1
Users manual

Congratulations on your purchase of the Gryphon Tabu
CDP1 CD Player.
The CDP1 is designed by the award winning Gryphon
design team and is build in the Gryphon tradition to
meet the demand of the serious audiophile. The CDP1
is utilizing new advanced Compact Disc decoding
technology (upsampling) in order to secure precise
recording play back while maintaining the musical
qualities that is the famous Gryphon trademark.
The CDP1 is Gryphons first digital product, we are cer­tain that when you listen to the CDP 1, you will appre­ciate why it took us so long.
We welcome you to the Gryphon family.

Unpacking:

Placement:

Warm up:

Keep the original packing for eventual future use.
Check that you received the following items:

1. The Tabu CDP1

2. 1 power cord

3. 1 Remote control

4. 2 batteries for the remote control ( AA batteries )

5. 1 pair of white gloves

6. 1 bottle of polish paste for Acrylic parts.

1.Do not place the CDP1 on top of power amplifiers or
other components that contains large power supplies.

2.Pay attention to the routing of AC cords to keep them
from interfering with audio interconnects.

3. Keep interconnects as short as practical possible.
The CDP1 has received a factory burn in as a part of

the QC. However it is our experience that the CDP1
will need at least 40 hours before it achieves its opti ­mum musical performance. ( The reproduction
becomes warmer more detailed and especially the
soundstage depth will improve dramatically.

Connecting the CDP1 to
your system.

The backside of the CDP1 is very strait forward and
features :
A. 1 Pair of analoqe outputs to be connected to any
line input on your pre amlifier or integrated amplifier. *
B. 1 Pair of balanced outputs to be connected to any
line input on your pre amplifier or integrated amplifier. *
C. 1 AESEBU balanced digital output to be connected
to an external D/A converter.
* We do not recommend the use of connection to
power amplifiers via a passive volume control.

Notes on cables:

The CDP1 ( and you ) deserves the very best cables.
At Gryphon we are not believers in “great sounding
cables “ but prefer neutral cables. If you get the
opportunity we suggest that you listen to the Gryphon
line of fine LC silver cables.

Using the CDP1

Using the display:

We know that the CDP1 is not your first CD player and
you do not need how to use the basic functions of a
CD player.
In the following we shall only address the more compli ­cated features of the CDP1.

All programming of the CDP1 is made from the
remote control..

Checking the total number and playing time of tracks.
Press TIME on the remote before start playing.

The display shows the total number of tracks, total
playing time and musical calendar.

While in shuffle play mode (SHUFFLE appears in the
display ) a one-second access time blank is added
between each track. This increase is automatically
added to the total playing time in the display.
This information also appears when you press
OPEN/CLOSE to close the disc tray.

Display information while playing a disc.
While playing a disc, the display shows ( from left to

right ) the current track number, index number, playing
time and musical calendar.
The track numbers in the musical calendar dissapears
after they are played.

Checking the remaining time.
Each time you press TIME on the remote while playing

a disc, the display changes from:
A. Playing time of current track.
B. Remaining time on current track. (If the track num­ber exceeds 24 “—,—” appears instead of the remain­ing time.)
C. Remaining time on the disc. (If the remaining time
exceeds 100 minutes in Programme Play mode or
when the disc has more than 24 tracks “—.-” appears
instead of the remaining time.