Clarisys
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Average Price
$75,001-$100,000
Brand Popularity
487
 of 900+
Products Listed
5
Review Count
4
Founding Year
2010
Headquarters
Switzerland
Clarisys
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What's unique about the brand

Clarisys Audio is a Swiss maker of ribbon loudspeakers. Its speakers use a double-sided ribbon driver held in a metal exoskeleton frame, and neodymium magnets raise their sensitivity, which makes them a natural match for tube amplifiers. The company supports its owners with community forums, a parts library and a certified pre-owned marketplace on its website. The Minuet is on our All Planar and Electrostatic Speakers list, and Clarisys also makes the Auditorium.

Our interview with the brand

What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?

What's your approach to customer support?

What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?

What other products pair best with yours?

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Products overview

Every Clarisys speaker uses a double sided ribbon driver in a metal frame with neodymium magnets, which makes it easy to drive with tube amplifiers. The Piccolo is the entry model, a compact speaker for a smaller room. The Studio is a larger cabinet built for sizeable spaces, and its 20Hz limit gives big rooms fuller bass. The Auditorium adds a ribbon midrange, which leaves the bass panel to low notes, and its 90dB efficiency gives more volume from the same amplifier.

  • Start here. A buyer with a smaller listening space who wants a first ribbon speaker should pick the Piccolo, which has the smallest cabinet at 3.5 ft tall.
  • Sweet spot. The Minuet gives a buyer with a modest room bass down to 28Hz and 88dB efficiency, which the Piccolo does not match, while the Studio and Auditorium mostly add bigger cabinets for larger rooms.
  • All in. The Auditorium is an iteration of the Studio recipe, priced above it in the same top bracket, and its identical drivers across bass, midrange and treble give a more coherent blend of voices and bass.
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Our interview with the brand

What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?

Our ribbon-planar woofers do have big surface like most of dipoles but also long stroke capability that allows huge air volume movement and deep and strong bass. Also push-pull magnets allow higher efficiency and linear magnetic field and consequently low distortion and signal compression.

What's your approach to customer support?

Customers can contact either us directly or the distributors. We support with all technical questions, dealers-distributors support on all price/delivery questions. We give a 5 year long warranty and support customers in case of technical issues through distributors or directly according to the type of issue. Most times shipping back to the factory is not necessary and we try to avoid it with on site actions. We also support customers with speakers positioning and advices on other system elements.

What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?

  • We often use Garcia-Fons Solo first track.
  • Harry Connick Jr Chanson du Vieux Carre’ track 1 or 8.
  • Wende Chante! Track 18 but all are great

What other products pair best with yours?

We love cables by Omega Audio Concepts, Amps by the same company, Soulution, HiFi-ONE Berning, Pilium, Jadis and many others. We also really enjoy pairing with Absolare amplifiers. We prefer CD as digital source and our CDP is made by Omega Audio Concepts.

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Our interview with the brand

What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?

We’re about planar magnetic speakers—with actual bass. Many others of this type don't have bass. Instead of just having magnets on one plane on either side of the voice coil, we put them front and back. We’re a cross between a Magnepan and a Martin Logan insofar as this driver topology inspiration. This gives you more x-max so you can get more output, which means better bass response.

Tradeoffs: More expensive, and possibly still not as bassy as the biggest EDM speakers can pull off. But it’s magical for everything else.

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