High-end hi-fi offers many flavours of weird and wonderful design, technology and functionality. In a sense, that's what it's there for, in order to differentiate itself from more prosaic, modestly priced products. Yet it's all too easy to get lost in 'surprise and delight' features, wild styling or wilfully alternative engineering - and lose the plot. When all is said and done, esoteric audio has to sound the part, and that's where Constellation has delivered. Keeping its eyes on the prize, it offers a clearly delineated range of products devoid of fripperies or gimmickry. Instead, it's back-to-basics for this Californian company.
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