Antileon

Why it is renowned

The Antileon has long carried Gryphon's pure class A approach; it followed the company's first power amplifier, the DM 100.¹ Reviewing the Antileon Revelation in 2026, Hi-Fi News called it perhaps the best power amplifier its reviewer had heard.¹ Gryphon's product archive lists the earlier versions: the Antileon Dual Mono and Solo Monoblock of 1995 to 2000, and the Signature in mono and stereo from 2001 to 2015.²

The story

The line began in 1995 and passed through the Signature, EVO and Anniversary editions before the Revelation.¹³ Flemming E. Rasmussen drew the exterior and Tom Møller designed the electronics.³ The name comes from the Greek for "lion-like", and the Revelation keeps elements of the 1995 design, with Gryphon's emblem set into a black anodised disc on the top plate.¹

The Revelation is a dual-mono amplifier giving 160 watts a channel in pure class A into 8 ohms.³ It has 40 bipolar Toshiba output transistors, two banks of 335,000 µF capacitors and a pair of custom-wound 1,500 VA toroidal transformers in a constrained-layer-damped case, and it weighs 90 kg; a mono version is also made.³ Three bias settings, low, mid and high, can be chosen by hand or set by a linked Gryphon preamplifier.³¹ It is designed and made in Denmark.³