![]() This low-mass cone is coupled to a patented oversize motor structure using neodymium magnets and a large voice coil. The total mass of the driver cone is only 2.5 grams. The A3S driver cone is made of titanium alloy combined with a concave dust cap constructed with constrained-layer damping to control high-frequency break-up modes. No other single driver available today can deliver this kind of performance.” ![]() It is also difficult for a single full-range driver to create an even dispersion pattern without beaming at higher frequencies.Īlthough Audience is understandably reticent to release too many specifics on the inner workings of its proprietary “dual- gap motor” A3S driver, according to its Web site, “The A3S has an exceptionally flat response from 40Hz to 22kHz +/-3dB in certain enclosures. ![]() It’s very hard to produce a full-range driver that has even power-handling throughout its frequency range. Eliminating the crossover puts greater demands on the full-range driver. Also the timing and group-delay problems introduced by a crossover’s filtering components are no longer an issue.īut there is no “free lunch” in physics. By eliminating a crossover circuit, the sonic issues, such as phase anomalies at the hinge points, vanish. The entire Audience speaker line is designed to achieve this goal. What does using a single, solitary, driver sans woofers, tweeters, and crossovers get you sonically speaking? The answer in one word is coherence. Other models soon followed, including the 16+16, 8+8, 2+2, 1+1, and most recently “The One.” Finally in 2009 Audience unveiled its first product, the ClairAudient 16 loudspeaker. Nine years of research went into developing a driver design that could accomplish Audience’s sonic goals. From the beginning Audience’s primary goal was to build a full-range-driver speaker without tweeters, woofers, or crossovers. McDonald left Sidereal in 1986, and then teamed up with Smith in 1997 to form Audience. If I had to sum up the 1+1 speaker in a single sentence I’d write, “It’s ‘The One’ on steroids.”įor readers who’ve never heard of Audience or its ClairAudient line of speakers, the company’s beginnings go back to 1979 when Audience’s president, John McDonald, met the late audio designer Richard Smith. So, when I was offered a chance to review “The One’s” bigger brother, the 1+1, I was more than willing. I thought it was one of the best desktop/nearfield speakers I’d ever heard, regardless of price or technology. A couple of months ago I reviewed Audience’s smallest speaker, “The One” in TAS.
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