Hybrid Audio Technologies are well chuffed that their promised lines of new products have arrived and are shipping. HAT now have the new Clarus line and their L1 Pro product – here are their press releases&;

Clarus Series 

We have exciting news to share todaywe are now fully stocked with our superior new line of Hybrid Audio Technologies Clarus Series 2-way speaker systems. The industry and media has been buzzing for months in anticipation, and as promised, from March 1st, 2008, we are shipping our newest range of high-performance component sets.
The Clarus systems were based largely upon our award winning and world-championship calibre Legatia series, but at a lower price point. Like Legatia, this is a no-compromise car audio speaker component system with amazing clarity and detail, excellent midbass response, smooth, pleasing midrange, and lifelike and airy treble. Unlike many of the brands available today which are largely re-badged existing products built by and for others, this line is a ‘built from the ground up’ product, conceived from more than sixteen months’ worth of research and development, real-world testing, and obsessive attention to detail. Like all Hybrid Audio Technologies products, the Clarus systems were designed by Scott Buwalda, speaker designer, world champion competitor, and industry expert. Everything included in the design was for a purpose, even down to the box the speakers ship in. There are no compromises in the Clarus systems.

What Clarus does offer, that Legatia does not, is a complete turn-key system, including grilles, flush, surface, and wedge-mount tweeter mounting options including a swivel cup, wire and hardware, passive crossovers, and of course the four-piece speaker components. These systems are designed to be installed in a few hours on a Saturday afternoon with nothing more than a Phillips head screwdriver and a wire stripper. We have taken all of the guess-work out, and have left you with an easy to install product that sounds better than every other manufacturer’s products we double blind-tested against the Clarus within this price range, and several products costing twice as much as well. Basically, Clarus has all the bloodlines of our World Championship Legatia line, but at a reduced price (up to several hundred dollars).
There are two options in the Clarus range, the Clarus C51-2, a 5.25 inch component system, and the Clarus C61-2, a 6.5 inch component system. We have not yet had the chance to spend time in the photo studio to take catalogue-grade photographs, but we thought we’d show you in a less formal way what some of the system components look like (please see below).

L1 Pro Tweeters

In the past two years since releasing its first offering, the benchmark wide-bandwidth, small-format Legatia L3 wide-bandwidth midrange, the world has seen the emergence of Hybrid Audio Technologies as a leader in the development of a wide variety of loudspeakers specifically designed for in-car use. In 2007 alone, seventeen national and world-championship victories were earned in heavily contested car audio competitions around the world, five of which came at the International Auto Sound Challenge Association World Finals. More championships were won by Hybrid Audio Technologies-equipped vehicles than all other front-stage speaker manufacturers combined. In continuing with our tradition of exceptional mobile audio loudspeakers, we are elated to announce that we are now shipping our widely-anticipated Legatia L1 ‘Pro Series’ tweeter to compliment our other products in the Legatia series, as well as our recently-introduced Clarus series component separates.

The Legatia L1 Pro tweeter is the result of a significant effort in research and development, materials science engineering, an exhaustive level of sampling and prototyping, real-world testing, and obsessive attention to detail to create the ultimate masterpiece in a mobile audio tweeter. The body of the tweeter is a fully-machined aluminium housing (not cast aluminium), and contains a damped rear chamber to ensure the tweeter’s wide-bandwidth operation. The dome is a 25mm impregnated fine silk diaphragm, and the motor a neodymium design. The connections are via nickel-plated small-format spring-loaded binding posts, with a unique 52mm knurled accoutrement at the rear to attach the tweeter to its mounting surface. With the addition of the L1 Pro tweeter to the Hybrid Audio Technologies product line-up, we now offer sixteen options for two and three-way component sets, in addition to offering the six different component speakers in the Legatia line a la carte, and two different packaged two-way kits with passive crossovers in the Clarus line.
For more information and pricing, please contact [email protected]