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Our Values
The core of Constellation Audio resides not in any one person or in any particular technology. It rests in the values that inspired us to found this company. We built Constellation Audio on a set of values we developed through decades of combined experience in high-end audio – as manufacturers, dealers and, most importantly, as customers ourselves. We asked ourselves what worked from a technical standpoint, and what didn’t. We asked ourselves what products had made us thrilled to be audiophiles, and what products had frustrated and annoyed us. And we asked ourselves how we could best accomplish our goal of producing audio products that would exceed the performance of even the most revered and legendary brands.
These are the values we practice with every new product design, every product we manufacture, and every interaction with our customers and dealers. Constellation was founded on the premise that one cannot create something extraordinary through slavish adherence to established methods. When tradition is the best path, we embrace it. When new technology is necessary to achieve the performance we want, we invent it. When we find a radical circuit topology that delivers a substantial advance in sound quality, we use it.
Tradition
Although many high-end audio products (including ours) employ the very latest technology, one simply cannot create a true high-end audio product without a thorough appreciation for the audio industry’s rich history. The pioneers of audio—some of whom are members of our design “dream team”—developed a wealth of experience in achieving lifelike, musical sound from their products. Constellation Audio products build on this knowledge, never forgetting the lessons that audio’s founding fathers have taught us.
Innovation
As vital as it is to know the traditions of audio, proficiency with the very latest technologies is just as important. This is one of the main reasons we insisted on building a “dream team” of world-renown engineers and designers. Instead of forcing our engineers outside their areas of expertise when new technologies come along, we seek out engineers who have already mastered those technologies. Our team approach also prevents us from being mired in outdated concepts or in any one engineer’s pet technologies and philosophies.
Purity
Faithfulness to the original source is key to the concept of high-end audio, and it remains the guiding principle in our product designs. In fact, many of our proprietary design concepts, such as our Line Stage Gain Module and Balanced Bridged amplifier design, arose from our design to keep signal paths as simple, transparent and perfect as possible. Look inside any of our products and you will see that we never create unneeded complexity for the sake of styling, convenience or cost.
