Audience ClairAudient Bellare Loudspeakers (pair)

A New Approach to Loudspeaker Design

The Audience ClairAudient Bellare is a remarkable full-range loudspeaker designed around a simple but ambitious idea: reproduce music with as little disruption to the signal as possible.

Rather than dividing the critical midrange and treble between different types of drivers and crossover networks, Bellare uses an array of identical 3-inch full-range drivers to reproduce everything from 120 Hz upward. The result is an exceptionally coherent point-source presentation with natural tone, precise timing, stable imaging, and remarkably uniform dispersion.

For the deepest bass frequencies, Bellare incorporates a powerful DSP-assisted active bass system with a built-in 300-watt amplifier. This allows the external amplifier to focus on the midrange and treble while the speaker’s internal amplification handles the lowest octaves.

The result is a loudspeaker that combines the coherence and immediacy of a full-range design with the scale, dynamics, and low-frequency authority expected from a high-performance floorstanding speaker.

Crossover-Free Midrange and Treble

At the heart of Bellare’s design is its array of identical 3-inch wideband drivers. From 120 Hz upward, the drivers operate without a conventional mid/high-frequency crossover.

By eliminating crossover handoffs through this critical portion of the audible spectrum, Bellare is designed to preserve phase integrity, tonal consistency, and the spatial relationships between instruments and voices.

The effect is a presentation that feels remarkably unified. Vocals, strings, percussion, and other instruments emerge with natural timbre and exceptional timing, while the soundstage remains stable and coherent across a wide listening area.

Active Bass for Effortless Performance

Bellare’s bass system takes a different approach from conventional passive loudspeakers.

A built-in 300-watt amplifier directly powers the speaker’s woofer and mid-woofer section, with DSP providing both bass-level adjustment and automatic room correction. This allows Bellare to deliver deep, controlled bass while relieving the partnering amplifier of the demands associated with reproducing the lowest frequencies.

With a -3 dB frequency response extending down to 28 Hz, Bellare delivers impressive low-frequency extension without compromising the coherence of its full-range driver architecture.

Easy to Pair With a Wide Range of Amplifiers

With 88 dB sensitivity and a nominal impedance of 9.5 ohms that never falls below 8.5 ohms, Bellare presents an exceptionally well-behaved load to an amplifier.

Because its active bass system handles the lowest frequencies, the external amplifier only drives the 120 Hz-and-above portion of the speaker’s response. This makes Bellare particularly well suited to lower-powered amplifiers, including single-ended and Class A tube designs, while still providing the dynamic headroom to take advantage of more powerful solid-state amplification.

Audience states that amplifiers of approximately 20 watts and above can pair beautifully with Bellare.

Natural, Spacious and Highly Dynamic

Bellare is designed to disappear behind the music rather than draw attention to the mechanics of loudspeaker reproduction.

Its uniform dispersion and coherent point-source architecture help produce a stable, spacious soundstage with excellent imaging. Audience rates the speaker at up to 105 dB continuous output without driver compression, allowing music to retain its dynamic impact and scale even at realistic listening levels.

The result is an engaging and natural presentation that can make recordings feel remarkably immediate and lifelike.

Key Features

• Full-range point-source loudspeaker architecture
• Multiple identical 3-inch high-resolution wideband drivers
• No mid/high-frequency crossover above 120 Hz
• Built-in active bass system
• 300-watt internal bass amplifier
• DSP-based automatic room correction
• Remote bass-level control
• 88 dB sensitivity
• 9.5-ohm nominal impedance
• Impedance never below 8.5 ohms
• Frequency response: -3 dB at 28 Hz – 22 kHz
• Up to 105 dB continuous output
• Exceptionally controlled phase response
• Uniform dispersion and coherent imaging
• Compatible with amplifiers from approximately 20 watts and up
• Particularly well suited to low-powered tube and Class A amplification

A Speaker Designed Around the Music

The Bellare represents a fundamentally different approach to loudspeaker design. Instead of relying on multiple disparate drivers and crossover networks to divide the audible spectrum, Audience uses a coherent full-range driver system for the frequencies where our ears are most sensitive, then adds an independently powered active bass system for the lowest octaves.

The result is a speaker designed to preserve the timing, tonal character, spatial information, and dynamic expression contained in the recording.

For listeners seeking an exceptionally transparent and natural loudspeaker that can partner with everything from intimate tube amplifiers to high-powered solid-state systems, the Audience ClairAudient Bellare offers a compelling and highly sophisticated approach to high-end music reproduction.