Pro Audio Review Selects 10th Annual PAR Excellence Award Winners at AES San Francisco
10.31.2006
Pro Audio Review selected 38 products as recipients of the 2006 PAR Excellence Award, awarded at the 2006 AES in San Francisco.
In its 10th year of selecting the PAR Excellence Award winners at AES, Pro Audio Review has recognized more than 300 new products from the studio, broadcast, live/installation and post segments. The nominees are picked by a panel of engineers who select products based on at least one of the following criteria: potential to improve audio quality, potential to increase audio workplace efficiency, and potential to improve function and/or value over previous versions of the product. The product must not have been shown at the 2005 U.S. AES, and must be shipping by June 2007.
A full description of the award winners and the judges comments can be found in the November print and digital issues Pro Audio Review.
For more information, contact John Gatski at jgatski@aol.com.
2006 PAR Excellence Winners
- AEA TRP Ribbon Microphone Preamplifier
- API 5500 Four-Band Analog Equalizer
- Aphex Anaconda Digital Audio Distribution System
- ATI ADAC2 AD/DA Converter
- Audio Precision APX Test System
- beyerdynamic Headzone Surround Monitoring Headphone
- Community Loudspeakers Veris Series Installation Speakers
- Core Sound AmbiMic Surround Microphone
- Crowley and Tripp Naked Eye Ribbon Microphone
- Crown CDi Series Installation Amplifiers
- DACS Eightch Multichannel Volume Controller
- DTS HD Master Audio Suite
- Elysia Alpha Stereo Compressor
- Fairlight Crystal Core Processor Technology
- Frontier Design AlphaTrack Controller
- Genelec 8200 DSP-Controlled Closefield Monitors
- Genex Mix+ DSD Recording/Mixing System
- Groove Tubes SuPre Microphone Preamp
- Holophone H4 SuperMINI Surround Microphone System
- JBL VLA Installation Speakers
- Korg MR Professional Portable DSD/PCM Recorders
- Lab.gruppen FP+ Live Sound Amplifiers
- Latch Lake micKing Microphone Stand
- Little Labs LMNOPRE Microphone Preamplifier
- MXL USB.006 Microphone
- Neumann KM-D Digital Microphones
- Oram/DMM Paris SMP1 Stereo Microphone Preamp
- Roger Nichols Digital Pro Bundle
- Rupert Neve Design 5088 Analog Console
- Shure KSM9 Live Microphone
- Solid State Logic Duality Console
- Steinberg Cubase 4 Software
- TASCAM DV-RA1000HD High-Resolution Master Recorder
- True Systems Solo Ribbon Microphone Preamplifier
- Virtual Katy Post Production Software
- Waves Mercury Bundle
- Yamaha LS-9 Small Format Digital Console
- Zaxcom ZFR800 Wireless Recorder System