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https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/constellation-audio-statement-monoblock-power-amplifier

The appropriately named Constellation Audio Statement makes a stunning visual, technical, and musical statement that is a significant departure from the company’s previous offerings. In my experience, the Statement sets a new standard of amplifier performance in speed, transient fidelity (micro and macro), clarity, transparency, resolution, and bass muscularity and dynamic impact. The Statement is a highly exciting, upbeat, and immensely involving amplifier. Moreover, its massive power output means it will drive even the most difficult loudspeaker loads to any listening level without a sense of strain. And then there’s the stunning casework, which is unlike anything else in high-end audio.

Yet despite the Statement’s grandeur on dynamic and large-scale music, it has a delicacy and subtlety of expression with intimate music. The amplifier’s speed, transparency, and resolution are just as salubrious with quiet music played at a low level as with symphonic bombast. This is the Statement’s great achievement; it is truly an amplifier that can do it all at an unprecedented level of performance. In short, the Statement is, by not a small margin, the best-sounding, most realistic, and most musically thrilling solid-state amplifier I’ve heard. 

Imagine a photo you’ve taken of a landscape blanketed in a light fog. From your view, objects’ colors are more and more desaturated the farther they sit from the lens, the deeper they sit within the image. The edges are softer, details are blurred, and the image depth is flattened somewhat. And, while our favorite components are often well-designed, and with particular focus around the power supply circuits, this noise remains. It colors what we hear through our loudspeakers and headphones. By removing the fog, we reveal the objects in their full color; their shapes stand out in bold relief, and image depth and scale expand. This, combined with the decompression of the overall image and the PQ-707’s ability to deliver additional current on demand, makes for a more engaging experience. Timing is everything. Music, like humans, only exists in time. To recreate (or approximate) the flow of any one performance, our systems require clean, stable power. To my ears, this heightened dynamic expression is the most remarkable and desirable result of installing a product like this in my system. It is not only about the big swings; it’s the smallest transients that bring music reproduction to life. The PowerQuest 707 (or perhaps another here that better meets your needs) should be on your list for audition.

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/soulution-717-monoblock-power-amplifier

The amplifier that pulled this trick off was the aforementioned Soulution 710, the brainchild of Cyrill Hammer, the founder of the Swiss high-end audio firm Soulution, and the late Christoph Schürmann, formerly of the German company Audiolabor and at the time working for Cyrill. It took the pair better than half a decade to perfect their circuitry, but perfect it they did. The result was astounding. As I said at the time, “with a transparent-enough speaker and source, the Soulution 710 simply isn’t audible in most of the usual ways that solid-state or tube amps are audible. It isn’t dark, and it isn’t light; it isn’t warm, and it isn’t cool; it isn’t liquid, and it isn’t dry; it isn’t fat, and it isn’t lean; it isn’t sweet, and it isn’t sour; it isn’t great at the frequency extremes but less lifelike in the midband; it isn’t flat or airless, and it isn’t bloated or overly bloomy; it isn’t terrific on starting transients and AWOL on stopping ones; it isn’t too tightly focused, and it isn’t too loosely defocused; it just isn’t. And since it isn’t, speakers (at least those capable of high levels of transparency and neutrality) aren’t, either.”

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This was a performance of remarkable low-end precision, the taut, focused impact making the most of the track’s production. At the same time, I noted an occasional touch of splashiness to the cymbals, as the new Gyro/TecnoArm 2 system fully uncovered the character of this early 1990s digital recording. Michell’s tonearm is a fine partner for the turntable but it has an incisive edge, which can occasionally creep into over-exuberance.

Still, the TecnoArm 2 contributes to this deck’s low-end prowess, so the drum strikes on the Eagles’ ‘One Of These Nights’, from the album One Of These Nights [Asylum K53014], thundered from my speakers with punch and immediacy. And when a more measured hand was required to capture the faster and more intricate bass on the title track of Jessie Ware’s 2026 Superbloom LP [EMI Records EMIV 2152], the Gyro skipped along with delicacy and insight. Additionally, the high-frequency information here was crisp, detailed and sparkling.