Audience launches the ClairAudient The ONE-- a compact single-driver loudspeaker ideal for desktop music, compact high-end stereo and home theatre applications.
The smallest member of the ClairAudient family, the ONE measures 18cm x 14cm x 18cm and carries a A3-S full-range crossover-less driver together with a purpose-designed passive radiator.
The A3-S is 12mm excursion ultra-low distortion transducer Audience claims eliminates the need for a separate woofer, midrange driver, tweeter and crossover network-- and sonic compromises of the sonically dissimilar drivers, phase distortions, resolution loss and transient response degradation variety.
Being a benign load to amplifiers, The ONE is compatible with a wide range of tube and solid-state amplifiers, with flat 50Hz-20kHz in-room response when placed on a desk or near a wall (subwoofer is required for full-frequency response when not situated near a wall).
The ONE ships now as a pair in either black or blue finishes, with white and red finishes to be available soon.