“When I listened to the 1+1 V5s during the audition, it felt like I was a student attending a master class in sound reproduction.”
Ken Redmond – Sep ’24
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“When I listened to the 1+1 V5s during the audition, it felt like I was a student attending a master class in sound reproduction.”
Ken Redmond – Sep ’24
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“I’ll be the first to admit that I initially found myself staring at these little marvels as much as I did listening to them. However, they quickly proved themselves to be far more than a curiosity, as they are moreover a lifestyle solution, offering exceptional, highly resolved music through a transducer so small, yet revealing life-like music ten times their size.”
Michael Bump – Aug ’24
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Link to Best of 2024 Award Page
“…they are one of the best loudspeakers money can buy”
Alan Sircom – July ’24
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“… they are remarkable–I don’t remember any LS3/5as I’ve heard manage to sound this unflappable while moving between near listening and a more conventional placement.“
Marc Phillips – June ’24
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“They serve up everything in a delicately layered remarkably liquid eerily resolute clearly defined and musically compelling manner.”
The Audio Analyst by Greg Weaver – Dec ’23
“Without a doubt, the V5 is a bigger leap forward than any of the other updated versions. In my opinion, it is bigger than all of the changes made in previous versions put together.”
Jack Roberts, editor – Sep ’23
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Steven Stone talks about the changes in the ClairAudient 1+1
September ’22
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“I don’t think I’ll be able to go back to listening to multi-way speakers with passive crossovers, even systems as nice as my Fritz Carrera 7 BE. At least not without feeling that I’m missing much of what I know is present in good recordings. I have several friends who feel the same way. Until now, I’ve brushed off their comments that passive crossovers were holding back the performance of my system. They now have my attention, thanks to Audience and my time with the ClairAudient 1+1.”
David Snyder – Aug ’22
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Audience 1+1 V3
$2960
Don’t let the 1+1 V3’s nearly identical appearance to the 1+1 V2+ fool you; this newly upgraded version is a huge leap over its already superlative predecessor. The V3 employs a significantly redesigned version of Audience’s full-range driver, top-level Au24SX internal wiring, re-tuned passive radiators, and custom tellurium solderless binding posts. The result is far more resolution and detail (particularly in the treble), superior transparency, wider dynamic expression, and even greater midrange purity. The 1+1 V3’s midrange clarity, just one of the virtues of a crossover-less single-driver speaker, is on a par with that of many speakers costing ten times the V2+’s price. The state of the art for desktop listening, and a terrific choice as a main speaker in smaller rooms. Robert Harley, 273
Mar ’21
Audience The ONE V3
$1695
The ONE, as you might infer from its name, is a single full-range driver shoehorned into a small box. The driver itself, the potent A3A, is the same transducer that achieved critical acclaim in Audience’s other loudspeakers. Properly set up, The ONE is capable of exceptionally wideband response, surprisingly forceful bass, and finely honed, low-level detail. The ONE is the second-best desktop speaker reviewer Steven Stone has heard (after the Audience 1+1). Steven Stone, 236
Mar ’21