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.

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