Apex

Why it is renowned

The Apex is the top of Gryphon's range: Hi-Fi News describes it as the flagship, more than twice the price and twice the weight of the Antileon.¹ Stereophile reviewed the Apex Stereo, an amplifier of 445 lb that its reviewer put in place of his reference monoblocks, and it is listed in the class A solid-state category of Stereophile's Recommended Components.²³

The story

Gryphon introduced the Apex in 2022, drawing on its work on the Antileon EVO and the Mephisto; Tom Møller designed the electronics and Flemming E. Rasmussen the exterior.⁴ It is a dual-mono design without global negative feedback, with class A J-FET input buffers, two 2,000 VA toroidal transformers and more than a farad of capacitance in its capacitor banks.⁴²

The Apex Stereo gives 210 watts a channel in class A into 8 ohms, rising to 1,490 watts into 1 ohm.⁴ The case is black aluminium with constrained-layer damping and non-magnetic materials to keep out interference.⁴ It has three bias settings, and it is designed and made in Denmark.⁴²