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The front panel of Altair II features a new touchscreen control, which allows all functions to be adjusted directly from the front panel. The enhanced contrast and large font sizes used on the touchscreen allow it to be seen from across a room. Machined remote control An elegant new remote control, machined from aluminum billet and wrapped in leather, provides immediate access to the most commo...[more]

The Revelation Series bridges a gap in the Constellation Audio product hierarchy. Building on the Inspiration tradition and offering improved performance due to the use of carefully selected parts, the Revelation Series is a logical step up from Inspiration. Its distinctively Constellation casework design draws upon the heritage of the Reference Series and extends the foundation first used in I...[more]

The Argo employs the best of Constellation Audio’s revolutionary audio technology. It starts with the Line Stage Gain Module circuitry used in the Altair II and Virgo II preamps, which uses hand-selected field-effect transistors (FETs) and servo circuits to achieve an essentially perfect balance between the positive and negative halves of the audio signal.The amplifier section features th...[more]

Building on the successful introduction of the Centaur II stereo and mono amplifiers last year, and benefitting from the research and development used to create the Reference Series Hercules II amplifiers, this new amplifier satisfies the demand for a more powerful Performance Series amplifier. Products of the Constellation Audio “dream team,” the Centaur II 500 Stereo delivers outs...[more]

Building on the successful introduction of the Centaur II stereo and mono amplifiers last year, and benefitting from the research and development used to create the Reference Series Hercules II amplifiers, this new amplifier satisfies the demand for a more powerful Performance Series amplifier. Products of the Constellation Audio “dream team,” the Centaur II 500 Stereo delivers outs...[more]

The Hercules II Mono employs a revolutionary twist on the concept of a fully balanced amplifier. In all balanced amplifiers, mirror-imaged amplifier circuits are used, with one part amplifying the positive half of an audio signal, and the other part amplifying the negative half. Yet in other balanced amps, the two halves are not quite equal, because one uses N-type transistors and the other use...[more]

The Stereo benefits from the same upgrades we made to the Mono. The power supply features substantially larger storage capacitors, to deliver cleaner DC power and more headroom on loud peaks. The pure copper bus bars used for the speaker outputs and power supply rails are twice the size of those in the original Hercules. Both of these improvements allow the Hercules II Stereo to perform even be...[more]

The Constellation Audio Inspiration INTEGRATED 1.0 is the newest member of Constellation Audio's most affordable Inspiration Series, and joins its preamplifier and amplifier line-mates in delivering the performance that is expected from Constellation Audio at a more affordable price. Delivering plenty of power, 100 wpc into 8 Ohms (and twice that into 4), a full array of balanced and single-end...[more]

This is power enough to produce incredible, concert-hall dynamics with any speaker. Yet it is the size of a standard audio amplifier and weighs just 55 pounds. When you consider that the Centaur Monoblock weighs in at 103 pounds, and the Hercules II Monoblock at 220 pounds, the Inspiration's ability to deliver incredible power from a modestly sized chassis is remarkable indeed. Also remarka...[more]

Fully complementary circuitry: The Perseus's balanced audio circuitry is essentially two mirror-imaged preamp circuits, one to amplify the positive half of the audio signal, the other to amplify the negative half. The fully balanced design cancels the effects of interference-an important capability considering the low level of the signals inside a phono preamp-and also increases slew rate and f...[more]

Constellation Audio, the renowned luxury goods manufacturer of high performance solid-state electronics, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Revelation Series of components at CES 2017. CEO Dr. Murali Murugasu challenged his dream team of designers and engineers to develop a new series of Constellation Audio components that could deliver the essence of our renowned Performance Se...[more]

We like to say the Inspiration PREAMP 1.0 is distilled, not diluted. It embodies the essence of our earlier work while retaining the subjective musicality and objective performance that won so much acclaim for our previous preamps. The most vital technology in our preamps is the Line Stage Gain Module, a fully balanced amplification circuit that uses servos to maintain a pristine balance be...[more]

Our Balanced Bridged topology uses only N-type output transistors, so the two halves of the audio signal are always perfectly balanced. In most fully balanced amplifiers, the schematics for the positive and negative halves of the amplifier circuit are mirrored, but one half uses N-type transistors and the other half uses P-type transistors. Thus, a perfectly balanced output can never be achieve...[more]

Constellation Audio, the renowned luxury goods manufacturer of high performance solid-state electronics, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Revelation Series of components at CES 2017. CEO Dr. Murali Murugasu challenged his dream team of designers and engineers to develop a new series of Constellation Audio components that could deliver the essence of our renowned Performance Se...[more]

Constellation Audio, the renowned luxury goods manufacturer of high performance solid-state electronics, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Revelation Series of components at CES 2017. CEO Dr. Murali Murugasu challenged his dream team of designers and engineers to develop a new series of Constellation Audio components that could deliver the essence of our renowned Performance Se...[more]

The Virgo III is an evolutionary step from the former Virgo II and like its predecessor the new Virgo III uses a separate power supply for better isolation and lower noise. Compared to its predecessor, the Virgo III will provide improved remote control operation, smoother operation of front panel knobs, and new internal circuitry that allows a quicker warmup time for virtually instantaneous pea...[more]

500 watts per channel into 8 ohms: The Centaur Mono owner need never worry about power, no matter what speakers are used. The power output is sufficient to drive any speaker, of any impedance or sensitivity, with enough headroom to practically eliminate the possibility of audible distortion from the amplifier. Unique modular design: The Centaur Mono gets its power not from bulking up a smaller de...[more]

250 watts per channel into 8 ohms :With the current to deliver 500 watts into a 4-ohm load and 800 watts into a 2-ohm load, the Centaur has enough power to drive any speaker, even state-of-the-art full-range models. Balanced drive circuit design: Because the Centaur uses only N-type output transistors, it achieves essentially perfect positive/negative balance—something no amplifier that use...[more]

USB input for digital file playback: The Cygnus plays digital music files stored on any USB hard drive or thumb drive. FLAC, WAV and AIFF files are supported. Legacy digital inputs: Five inputs are provided to connect digital source devices such as CD players and satellite radios. Optional USB computer input: Interfaces the Cygnus directly with a computer for playback of files stored on...[more]

Constellation Virgo II now includes the same power supply used for Altair. This supply offers numerous advantages. While the original Virgo’s power supply took electrical isolation to a high level with separate transformers and outputs for the audio and control circuits, the Constellation Virgo II supply enables true dual-mono operation, with separate transformers and outputs for left-cha...[more]

The core of the Virgo is Constellation Audio’s Line Stage Gain Module, a fully balanced preamplifier circuit that achieves essentially perfect balance between the positive and negative halves of the audio signal. The musicality and transparency of this circuit are unequalled in any other preamp available. The Line Stage Gain Module also makes possible the Constellation Link, a direct conn...[more]