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  • What is the Centaur II stereo?

    • Well, in essence this is the existing 250W Centaur II Stereo, into which has been transplanted a power supply derived from the flagship Hercules II amplifier.

  • How much power is in a Centaur II 500?

    • (The Centaur II 500 is specified as offering 250Wpc into 8 ohms.) That’s where that back-breaking weight comes in: Squatting at the center of the chassis, behind the front panel, is a massive toroidal power transformer.

  • How do I Turn On my Centaur II 500 amplifier?

    • After connecting the Centaur II 500 to the wall socket with its 20A IEC cable, you turn it on with the rear-panel Master power switch, which resets an internal circuit breaker. The LED in the center of the front panel glows red, indicating that the amplifier is in standby mode.

  • How do I bypass the Centaur II’s gain module?

    • Customers who own Constellation Audio preamps may use the Constellation Link interface to bypass the Centaur II’s gain module. Centaur II’s incomparable audio circuitry would achieve little without a clean, abundant source of power.

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  • What makes the constellation Centaur different?

    • Like the Hercules, Constellation Audio’s top-of-the-line Reference series amplifier, the Centaur uses a balanced drive design, a unique, fully complementary circuit topology that achieves an essentially perfect balance between the positive and negative halves of an audio signal.

  • What is a centaur amplifier?

    • Yet the core circuitry, which made the original Centaur one of the world’s most acclaimed amplifiers, remains the same. The concept, created by our dream team of audio engineers, was to combine multiple small, single-ended amplifier modules to achieve the power of a large amplifier.

  • How does the Centaur work?

    • The Centaur is built from multiple 125-watt single-ended modules so it delivers the power of a large amplifier with the finesse of a small amp. The audio circuits inside the Centaur are constructed using discrete components only, with no analog audio ICs. A large toroidal transformer provides ample current for the Centaur’s power rails.

  • What is the Centaur mono?

    • The Centaur Mono incorporates all of Constellation Audio’s groundbreaking amplifier technologies in a package that is, shall we say, a bit more living-room-friendly than our 275-pound-each Hercules monoblock.

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    One of the balanced inputs is marked鈥淐onstellation Direct鈥?/strong>and is used when driving the Centaur with a Constellation preamplifier. This input bypasses one entire gain stage in the Centaur. The chassis features an unusual surface texture machined into the aluminum along with ventilation holes in the side panels.

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  • How much does a Centaur II stereo power amplifier cost?

    • At first glance, one might be forgiven for wondering what’s going on here 鈥?after all, California-based Constellation Audio already has a Centaur II stereo power amplifier on its books, selling for a not inconsiderable 48,000.

  • What is constellation’s inspiration stereo amplifier?

    • Larry Greenhill reviewed Constellation’s Inspiration Stereo 1.0 power amplifier in April 2018. The Inspiration Stereo costs $11,000, delivers 200Wpc into 8 ohms (23dBW), and on the surface looks very similar to the Performance Centaur II 500.

  • What makes the constellation Centaur different?

    • Like the Hercules, Constellation Audio’s top-of-the-line Reference series amplifier, the Centaur uses a balanced drive design, a unique, fully complementary circuit topology that achieves an essentially perfect balance between the positive and negative halves of an audio signal.

  • What is the difference between the Centaur II 500 and inspiration stereo?

    • The Centaur II 500 weighs almost three times as much as the Inspiration Stereo: 150 vs 55 lb. Like all Constellation amplifiers, the Centaur II 500 is based on the company’s Balanced Bridged topology, which combines single-ended output modules, each of which uses eight N-channel MOSFETs to produce the desired output power.