Weiss-Man
pfm Member
Hello all, I have a Gryphon Diablo which I have put up for sale due too not enough room in the lounge, and taking it up and down the stairs on some weekends depending on my desire to listen to music. Ashamedly sometimes I couldn’t be bothered to bring it downstairs and would end up listening to a Bluetooth speaker due to convenience. It has however for the last week lived permanently wired up in the lounge, connected to a MacBook Pro via a cheap USB cable with an Apple camera conversion to USB C, hardly doing the Gryphon any favours! Due to living in the sticks and having a really unstable Wi-Fi, we have instead 100GB contracts on our iPads. If you haven’t reached for a blunt knife yet and are still reading;
1, I can’t be bothered with the faff of using the iPad to feed data to the MacBook Pro (constantly having to re-establish the connection).
2, Using the above configuration, whenever I want to skip a track/change album etc, I have to get out my chair (I know, a real first world problem) crouch on the floor to first of all awaken the MacBook Pro, to then mess about with selecting something else, to then sit back down hoping the wireless connection to the iPad feeding the data won’t be broken.
3, I much prefer the sound that Optical inter connects give rather than USB, I know that sounds daft but I really can tell the difference, I find Optical so much faster and open with a wider soundstage.
So, can I ask your thoughts, do I buy a DAP (and a long cable so I can have it on my lap) as a front end or something like a Hugo ( so I can, there’s no easy way to say it, Bluetooth to it), which I could use as a headphone system with my Grado GS2000? The only thing here is the DAC won’t be utilised as the Gryphon has the built in DAC, which at a £5,000 option, I would hope to be much better than the Hugo.
So basically as a summary, I want to be able to control things from my chair without having to constantly get up, and be able to connect to the Optical input on the back of the Gryphon.
One other option, going off at a complete tangent, is I have found a Gryphon CD player (have quite a few CD’s) at a fairly attractive price!!!
Any constructive advice appreciated.
1, I can’t be bothered with the faff of using the iPad to feed data to the MacBook Pro (constantly having to re-establish the connection).
2, Using the above configuration, whenever I want to skip a track/change album etc, I have to get out my chair (I know, a real first world problem) crouch on the floor to first of all awaken the MacBook Pro, to then mess about with selecting something else, to then sit back down hoping the wireless connection to the iPad feeding the data won’t be broken.
3, I much prefer the sound that Optical inter connects give rather than USB, I know that sounds daft but I really can tell the difference, I find Optical so much faster and open with a wider soundstage.
So, can I ask your thoughts, do I buy a DAP (and a long cable so I can have it on my lap) as a front end or something like a Hugo ( so I can, there’s no easy way to say it, Bluetooth to it), which I could use as a headphone system with my Grado GS2000? The only thing here is the DAC won’t be utilised as the Gryphon has the built in DAC, which at a £5,000 option, I would hope to be much better than the Hugo.
So basically as a summary, I want to be able to control things from my chair without having to constantly get up, and be able to connect to the Optical input on the back of the Gryphon.
One other option, going off at a complete tangent, is I have found a Gryphon CD player (have quite a few CD’s) at a fairly attractive price!!!
Any constructive advice appreciated.
