Clarisys Audio Piccolo
This compact, full-range ribbon speaker delivers exquisite speed, three-dimensional immersion, and emotional purity in Clarisys’ most room-friendly design.
Full-Range Ribbon Performance, Distilled to Its Most Elegant and Accesssible Form
The Clarisys Piccolo is designed for those who seek the speed, purity, and resolution of full-range ribbons in a more compact, room-friendly form.
At its heart is a custom-designed Kapton/aluminum ribbon system operating in true dipole configuration—delivering lightning-fast transient response, exceptional low-level detail, and the effortless openness that only a full-range planar can provide. The precision-matched midrange and high-frequency ribbons work together to create a soundstage that’s immersive, airy, and alive.
The structure is housed in a rigid, low-resonance aluminum frame, ensuring mechanical stability and minimal coloration. As with all Clarisys speakers, the Piccolo is assembled in Hanoi, Vietnam, with final tuning and quality control performed in Zwingen, Switzerland.
Whether paired with refined tube electronics or powerful solid-state amplification, the Piccolo offers a direct path to the emotional core of music—with none of the compromises typical of box speakers.
The Science of Ribbon Mastery
Clarisys speakers operate on a fundamentally different principle than conventional loudspeakers. Full-range ribbon drivers—ultra-thin diaphragms suspended in powerful magnetic fields—deliver performance impossible to achieve with traditional cone-based designs.
The moving mass of a ribbon is a fraction of a conventional driver, enabling transient response that captures the leading edge of every note with startling realism. Because the signal is distributed evenly across the diaphragm rather than concentrated at a voice coil, the ribbon moves as a unified surface—near-perfect pistonic motion with vanishingly low distortion at any volume.
The true bipole configuration radiates sound equally from front and rear, in phase, minimizing floor and ceiling reflections while creating the open, three-dimensional acoustic space that defines the Clarisys sound. And without a traditional enclosure, there are no box resonances to color or obscure the signal.
The result is coherence, transparency, and emotional immediacy that conventional speakers simply cannot replicate.
Specifications
| Technical Specifications | |
| Height | 3.5 ft / 106 cm |
| Width | 2.2 ft / 66 cm |
| Depth | 1 ft / 29 cm |
| Configuration | 2-way passive design with custom-wound inductors, multi-cap capacitors, custom resistors, and pure copper foil internal wiring |
| Average Impedance | 4 ohm |
| Sensitivity | 88 dB (ferrite magnets) / 92 dB (neodymium magnets) |
| Frequency Response | 32 Hz – 20 kHz |
Clarisys Audio exists at the intersection of obsessive engineering and pure musical emotion. What began as a group of dedicated audiophiles fabricating parts for cherished vintage Apogee speakers evolved into something more ambitious—a fundamental question of what a ribbon loudspeaker could become if designed without compromise. The answer wasn't replication. It was reinvention. Clarisys develops true bipole pure aluminum midrange ribbons—a world first. Their double-sided bass panels deliver dynamics and extension that challenge assumptions about what planar designs can achieve. The entire lineup shares the same DNA of speed, transparency, and the kind of spatial realism that makes you forget you're listening to a system at all, connecting you directly to the soul of a recording.
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