I would love to hear the 1.0 power amp. Anyone dare to describe the Constellation sound or make a comparison to another brand?
I've heard the Constellation gear a few months back. Both the Argo integrated and the Virgo preamp and Centaur monos. It's pretty amazing; I've love to own one of their integrateds.
Speaking of Constellation, a buddy is lending me his Inspiration integrated amp to borrow for a while, so I'll have some impressions to post soon. Really looking forward to it.
Looking very forward to your impressions. I am looking at a top flight integrated as my next purchase and the Constellation just came onto my RADAR screen. Your initial thoughts seem quite positive.
Looking very forward to your impressions. I am looking at a top flight integrated as my next purchase and the Constellation just came onto my RADAR screen. Your initial thoughts seem quite positive.
Oh, and my understanding is that the Constellation gear is very stable and consistent when driving pretty much any loudspeaker impedance load.
What speakers are you using? How do you find the bass and how are leading edges?
Have you had the top off? I've seen some YouTube videos claiming that Constellation doesn't use top parts and over priced
I don't put much stock in that type of thing, there seems to be more and more of that popping up, sort of ambush trashing products tomake something else look good.
Hey Bryan,
I haven't opened it up because I don't own it; it's on loan from a buddy, and out of respect for that, I'm not going break open something I don't own.
Yeah, I've seen the griping from some folks about "part this, and parts that". I don't know about that first-hand.
I see this likely as a "statistically significant" vs. "practically significant" kinda thing: "Should have used Miflex caps instead of Erse caps; Mills resistors instead of Vishay...blah, blah, blah." All those discussions are around what may be construed as "statistically significant", but in the REAL WORLD, all that matters is what is "practically significant".
And from a practically sgnificant perspective, all I can say is that the Constellation products I've heard sound f***ing fantastic. So...there's that.
Practically speaking, of course.