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High-performance audio has always been and will probably remain a cottage industry perpetuated by talented and visionary individuals whose products reflect their singular visions and whose companies often bear their names, though of course there are notable exceptions. One of them is Constellation Audio. No single star dominates the appropriately named Constellation Audio, which arrived on the scene at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show with a seemingly impossible debut roster of products: stereo and monoblock amplifiers, preamplifiers, digital file player/DACs, and phono preamplifiers, each category of component represented by members of two distinct lines: no compromise and <i>some</i> compromise.
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Constellation's instigators-in-chief are David Payes and Murali Murugasu, the Australian duo whose first venture into high-performance audio manufacturing was Continuum Audio Labs, makers of the <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/turntables/106con/index.html">Caliburn</a> and Constellation turntables, both the work of conceptualizer-in-chief Mark Doehmann and an illustrious team of metallurgists, motion-control experts, bearing specialists, and all the other technicians and craftspeople required to produce state-of-the art turntables.
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Though Doehmann is no longer with the company, Continuum soldiers on
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/constellation-audio-performance-centaur-mono-monoblock-power-amplifier]
High-performance audio has always been and will probably remain a cottage industry perpetuated by talented and visionary individuals whose products reflect their singular visions and whose companies often bear their names, though of course there are notable exceptions. One of them is Constellation Audio. No single star dominates the appropriately named Constellation Audio, which arrived on the scene at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show with a seemingly impossible debut roster of products: stereo and monoblock amplifiers, preamplifiers, digital file player/DACs, and phono preamplifiers, each category of component represented by members of two distinct lines: no compromise and <i>some</i> compromise.
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Constellation's instigators-in-chief are David Payes and Murali Murugasu, the Australian duo whose first venture into high-performance audio manufacturing was Continuum Audio Labs, makers of the <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/turntables/106con/index.html">Caliburn</a> and Constellation turntables, both the work of conceptualizer-in-chief Mark Doehmann and an illustrious team of metallurgists, motion-control experts, bearing specialists, and all the other technicians and craftspeople required to produce state-of-the art turntables.
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Though Doehmann is no longer with the company, Continuum soldiers on
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/constellation-audio-performance-centaur-mono-monoblock-power-amplifier]
