The minute I heard the Stereo 1.0 play music, I had my answer.įrom the front, the Inspiration Stereo 1.0 is a rectangular block of aluminum 8.5" high by 17 wide by 19" deep it weighs 55 lbs. I wondered if this amplifier would deliver the same excellent sonic qualities I've heard from costlier Constellations. Which brings me to the first audio component I've reviewed in this new room: Constellation Audio's least expensive power amplifier, the 200Wpc Inspiration Stereo 1.0 ($11,000).
My California room is less reverberant, with less bass extension and a shallower soundstage, but it's more revealing of instrumental timbres. I now listen to music in a room only 11' by 11.5', with a flat ceiling 8' high. My New York listening room had been big≲5' by 13', with a 12' semi-cathedral ceiling. The question arose soon after I moved from New York to San Rafael, California. Can those latter qualities really be inherent in the recording, or are they colorations produced in the amplifier? I've found that some audio amplifiers have sonic signatures so subtle that they emerge only over weeks of listening yet other amps sound so distinctivemore vivid, more transparent, more dynamicthat their signatures are immediately apparent.
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