2025 Solid State Integrated Amplifier of the Year: Gryphon Diablo 333

$24,900 (Optional DAC card, $7600; optional phono card, $6000)
The Gryphon Diablo 333 is an evolution of one of the best-selling high-end integrated amplifiers of all time. It can deliver a whopping 333Wpc into 8 ohms, doubling to 666Wpc into 4 ohms, and a stunning 1100Wpc into 2 ohms. Yet, it brandishes that awesome power to present acoustic tapestries of subtlety, delicacy, spatiality, and emotion, as if painted with a single bristle brush on a 3-dimensional canvas of air. Engineered with techno-stylistic principles and Gryphon’s famous design cues, this 112-pound behemoth reads heirloom build-quality. The Gryphon 333 is sonically accurate and wonderfully resolving, while completely avoiding any sense of sterility. It does this while maintaining a silent noise floor, controlling low-end dynamics, and generating grandiose scale and gravitas—not with brute force, but with a conductor’s delicacy. With all that power, the Diablo excelled at the subtlety and micro-resolution that exists between the nooks and crannies of the music. The 333 created space and presented it in a complex and structural way, and can portray texture, authentically convey timbre, handle massive dynamic swings, and make six hours disappear in a listening session. The Diablo 333 could be your very first high-end component or your very last. It is a dignified monster, a devil in a tuxedo, a beast that can drive the Nürburgring without ever spilling your martini. (354)
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