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# “Invisible” Curved Bluetooth Speaker Looks Great
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/invisible-curved-bluetooth-speaker-looks-great/
- Published: 2014-01-20T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-01-20T10:00:00.000Z
- Description: By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. One can actually lay eyes on the Clearview Clio, a $350 transparent curved Bluetooth speaker that snatched Engadget’s award for Best Audio Product of. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/01/invisible-curved-bluetooth-speaker-looks-great.html]
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- Tags: Conventions & Awards, Music Tech, Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

[![Clearview-speaker](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019b04e3a907970d-150wi "Clearview-speaker")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019b04e3a907970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

By Eliot Van Buskirk of [Evolver.fm](http://evolver.fm/?ref=hypebot.com).

One can actually lay eyes on the Clearview Clio, a $350 transparent curved Bluetooth speaker that snatched Engadget’s award for [Best Audio Product of CES 2014](http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/09/best-of-ces-2014-awards-winners/?ref=hypebot.com), after [Brian Heater](http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/clio/?ref=hypebot.com) spied it on the CES show floor.

ClearView calls its [Clio](http://www.clearviewaudio.com/pages/clio?ref=hypebot.com) “the first invisible speaker,” which is patently absurd, and not just because some speakers are built into walls, or are flat-panel paintings — you can clearly see this speaker, because here it is, chilling with some upscale kitchenware:

[![Clio-591x354](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019b04e3a6af970d-450wi "Clio-591x354")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019b04e3a6af970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

On the other hand, when viewed from far away, it’s a bit harder to detect:

[![Cantfind-591x354](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201a3fc5750f7970b-450wi "Cantfind-591x354")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201a3fc5750f7970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Maybe it’s good that the Clio isn’t really invisible, because it looks good. But how does it sound?

This unique speaker vibrates air to create sound with ”an ultra-thin, transparent, and gracefully curved acrylic glass membrane.”

But the membrane doesn’t actually generate the vibrations, the way electrostatic speakers do.

Instead, two piezo-electric actuators for left and right move in the base mechanically, vibrating the acrylic glass membrane and sending sound from both sides of the membrane, along its whole curve. Meanwhile, a two-inch subwoofer fires down, making this a sort of 2.1 speaker setup, albeit probably not with a ton of bass.

You can’t really take this thing camping or to the beach, which makes us wonder why it doesn’t use WiFi instead. Bluetooth only has a 30-foot range in most environments, so if you take the phone further away than that, you’ll hear dropouts.

However, Bluetooth does offer a wide range of compatibility with just about any mobile device that can store or stream music, and it works with any app, without requiring any third-party software anywhere. And good news: the Clio is compatible with Bluetooth 4.0 and Enhanced Data Rate, so it [sounds better with an iOS 7 iPhone](http://evolver.fm/2013/12/12/report-ios-7-makes-bluetooth-audio-sound-better/?ref=hypebot.com) or anything else that can output Bluetooth 4.0 audio.

Judging from Engadget’s award, we can only assume that it sounds pretty good, as it should for [$350](http://www.clearviewaudio.com/collections/all?ref=hypebot.com).

*(Images courtesy of [Clearview](http://www.clearviewaudio.com/pages/gallery?ref=hypebot.com))*