Meyer
Sound celebrated its 25th anniversary in style at the 117th
Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention held in San Francisco
in
October. After a banner year of increased sales and well-received
new products, the company rolled into the convention with a
powerful presence for the AES’s first San Francisco convention
in six years and walked out of it with its fifth TEC (Technical
Excellence and Creativity) award, awarded to the MILO high-power
curvilinear array loudspeaker for being best in Sound Reinforcement
Loudspeaker Technology at the 20th annual awards show.
Previous TEC awards
have been given to the SIM® source independent
measurement system, HD-1 high definition audio monitor, PSW-6
cardioid subwoofer and UPM-1P ultra-compact high coverage loudspeaker.
The award took its
place on Meyer Sound’s booth the next
day next to the company’s previous four awards, which were
on display there. MILO’s nomination was the 19th that the
company has received in the TEC Awards’ 20 years.
The day before MILO’s triumph, the original UPA-1 arrayable
loudspeaker was inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame in front
of a select crowd at a small ceremony MC’ed by Mix magazine
Editorial Director George Petersen and famed engineer/producer
George Massenburg. John Meyer accepted the honorary plaque and
spoke about the UPA-1’s origin.
As Meyer Sound’s past was honored, it’s
future was hailed, as the company had no sooner announced its
Galileo 616
digital loudspeaker management system than it was awarded a PAR
Excellence award by Pro Audio Review as the sound reinforcement
product at the show having the most potential. The Galileo 616
is slated to ship in Q1 2005.
Copyright © 2004
Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc.
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