Located in Brooklyn, New York, Bache Audio manufactures audiophile Hi-End speakers.
Bache Audio is a one-man operation company. As such, Greg Belman handles all of the company’s activities. Around 2010, he began designing and building single-driver speakers. These speakers don’t exhibit the reported driver cohesiveness problems that can be associated with speakers employing multiple drivers, and thus one or more crossovers. After a lot of experiments he has concluded that single-driver speakers yet perform poorly at the frequency spectrum’s upper and lower ends.
What Belman eventually settled with was the so-called “augmented wide-band” (AWB) speaker, which utilizes a single wide-band driver that covers a large portion of the audible frequency band, accompanied by several additional drivers, usually a super tweeter and one or more woofers. Belman said that this hybrid design incorporates the best attributes of the one-way designs – exceptional dynamics and coherence, and their three-way counterparts – excellent frequency extension and dispersion characteristics, along with the ability to play loudly without distorting.
Bache’s speakers are perfectly paired with tube electronics from Alexus Audio, a collaborate company, manufacturer of audiophile tube amplifiers. Also together they have manufactured AB Audio electronics, named from the first letters of “Alexus” and “Bache,” is a joint venture between those two companies.
People who heard Belman’s AWB speakers were impressed. In fact, he soon developed somewhat of a cult following. In 2013 Belman started Bache Audio. The company’s current speaker models, made in small runs, range in price from $2500 to $14,000 per pair (all prices USD).
Special attention should be paid to an open to public soundproofed room where potential clients and audiophiles are invited for sound demonstration sessions (Call now to make appointment). The room contained many Bache AWB speakers that can be switched easily. The 225 sq. ft. showroom had a ceiling that was at least 10 feet high. Its audio system, which Belman also uses to voice his speakers, consisted of a Cocktail Audio X50(D) music server and a 500W AB Audio class-D integrated amplifier.