"This isn’t just another small loudspeaker, it’s the start of a revolution!" Alan Sircom, editor- Issue 68 – October ‘13 Read Full Review “It's a big investment for a desktop system - but you will be the envy of anyone and everyone nearby”. Gary Krakow - December '13 Read Full Review "The One ranks as the best dedicated desktop speaker I’ve heard. If you’re looking for an exceptional small-footprint monitor, The One is simply a must-audition." Steven Stone - October '13 Read Full Review "This is an epoch making product." Radio Gijyutsu (Radio Technique) - October '13 Read Full Review (Japanese) Read Full Review (English Translation) “Audience’s ClairAudient ONE is an extraordinary speaker with superb resolution of detail, excellent dynamic contrasts, and subtle articulation of transients. It’s capable of providing satisfying, involving uncolored long-term listening over a broad range of music”. Bob Reina - September '13 Read Full Review “In fact, I think the speaker’s overall detail and tonal accuracy is so good that it could be used as a recording monitor”. Robert Archer - August '13 Read Full Review “It’s not a classical desktop speaker, it’s more a high end product. The performance you get is eye popping. It’s a boutique product but a very special ONE.” Hakan Cezayirli, Editor - June '13 Read Full Review “It doesn’t pretend, as most speakers in its size and price range almost always do. It doesn’t lie. It tells the truth and will get you far closer to a sense of the real thing than any of its competing competitors can or will do.” Harry Pearson - April '13 Read Full Review
"Vocals were sensational for any loudspeaker, never mind one that costs less than $2k." -Robert Harley Steven Stone, Reviewer- October '14 Read Full Review (PDF) "The ONE, in particular, is amazingly good as a nearfield monitor for use with computers or gaming systems, while the 1+1 can work well in medium- sized theatre rooms. Both models are highly recommended". Doug Blackburn - August '14 Read Full Review (PDF) "If you think that miniature speakers in desktop setup only create a miniature soundstage, you really need to hear a pair of Audience 1+1s". Steven Stone - Issue #245, September '14 View Award
"As I look back over my time in and around this industry, beginning back when brands like Phase Linear and Advent were setting previously unrealized standards, the Audience ClairAudient project represents one of the most significant and exciting advances to our hobby that I can recall. Welcome to the uprising!" Greg Weaver - July '14 Read Full Review "If you are ready to take your listening experience to a new level, seek out the 1+1 and taste what chefs prepare for themselves". Victor Chavira - July '14 Read Full Review
"The ClairAudient 2+2 is by far the most enjoyable, musically compelling mini- monitor I've auditioned to date. It crushes other minimonitors at their own game, yet can play louder with lower distortion and power compression. There is little to complain about and much to rave about. In the mini-monitor genre it sits well above a crowded field. A sonic gem that demands a serious audition. Highly recommended!" The Absolute Sound – July/Aug 2011 – Dick Olsher Review (PDF, 917k)
"The ClairAudient 2+2 is by far the most enjoyable, musically compelling mini- monitor I've auditioned to date. It crushes other minimonitors at their own game, yet can play louder with lower distortion and power compression. There is little to complain about and much to rave about. In the mini-monitor genre it sits well above a crowded field. A sonic gem that demands a serious audition. Highly recommended!" The Absolute Sound Buyer's Guide By Dick Olsher -April '11 Link to Guide (PDF)
“Once you’ve gotten used to not hearing the distortions created by crossovers and multiple, different drivers, it’s awfully hard to go back. Very highly recommended.” Brian Damkroger - July'11 Read Full Review
"The 2 + 2 is the result of a long period of development and pursuit of a vision. If that vision includes an untarnished, coherent, and dynamic window into the music, I say well done. Highly recommended." Andre Marc - Oct '10 Read Full Review
HP's Workshop - April/May 2010 "I thought the sound I heard there as magically "right" as any I have heard at any show. I forgot to listen to the sound and listened to the music. A joy." Harry Pearson - THE Show, Las Vegas 2010 Read Full Review
Robert Harley Blogs Audience “The LSA4+4 sounded like a full-range speaker in every way, but with a coherence and seamlessness that was undoubtedly due to the lack of crossovers and disparate drivers. The midrange was palpable and immediate without sounding forward or emphasized. The top end had a full measure of detail and resolution, without the lack of air and extension I’ve heard in the past from full-range drivers. But the most surprising aspects of the LSA4+4 were its bass and dynamics. The bottom-end exhibited real weight and body, with a wonderful palpability of instrumental texture on acoustic bass. Similarly, the system was very quick, dynamic, and agile, with impact behind musical peaks.” http://www.avguide.com/blog/the-audience-clairaudient-loudspeaker%E2%80%94-20-year-dream-realized Robert Harley, Editor – June 22, ‘09
"I've heard a number of speakers that go for six digits a pair, and some that cost more than ten times the ClairAudients' price. But I can't think of a single speaker I've heard that has combined all the strengths of the ClairAudient LSA8+8 so spectacularly. It may well be the most neutral speaker I've ever heard, and it puts everything together to present memorable, moving, magnificent musical moments. Absolutely glorious, and an easy Reviewers' Choice." Vade Forrester, Soundstage - August '09 Read Full Review
No room at CES this year sounded better than the Audience set up. No room sounded as sonically accurate, as emotionally and aesthetically beguiling, as musically truthful and flat out startling with dynamic rightness of weight and timbre—as melodically, angelically charismatic. Positive Feedback On-Line/Jim Merod – THE Show '08 Report Jim Merod - THE Show '08 Report
Positive Feedback On-Line/Greg Weaver - THE Show '08 Report Greg Weaver-THE Show '08
"Run; don't walk to audition a pair of these speakers. In 2010, we are on the threshold of reproducing the innate exciting reality of recorded sound in the home. I say, it's about time!" Robert H. Levi - February '10 Read Full Review
"That's what these newly crafted, supremely buffed and tweaked ClairAudient "LSA 16+16" bi-pole speakers concoct: tactile musical force of a sort that makes it impossible for any music lover not to be sucked in, swept up, and transformed emotionally into immediate proximity with surging musical grooves and lyrical kaleidoscopes of shifting melodic shapes." Jim Merod - July '09 Read Full Review