B&Ws Zeppelin is named Best of Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award Winner
North Reading, MA–November 13, 2007– Britain‘s Bowers & Wilkins, recognized worldwide as the leading manufacturer of high-performance loudspeakers for home audio and home-theater systems, today announced that the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) has selected Bowers & Wilkins as an International CES Best of Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for Zeppelin. The Best of Innovations awards are given to the most highly honored products in each of the 31 product categories within the Innovations Designs and Engineering Awards. Products entered in the prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics. more






SPRINGFIELD, Virginia – November 2007 — Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, Virginia, has become the first purchaser of the new 42-fader Studer Vista 5 digital audio console in the United States. The console, which has been installed at front-of-house in the 1,100-seat auditorium, was selected for its input and output capacity, its simplicity of use by novice operators, and its flexibility, allowing simultaneous control of the main house system and monitors under two-man operation.
VIENNA, Virginia – November 2007 — A new Soundcraft Vi6™ digital live sound console has been installed at The Barns at Wolf Trap in time for the winter concert season, which runs annually from early October through May. The audio system at the 382-seat indoor venue, located close to Washington DC at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, was revamped in 2005 with a JBL VerTec line array system, Crown amplifiers, BSS Audio Omnidrive processing and AKG microphones.
NEW YORK CITY — At the Opening Ceremonies of the 123rd AES Convention in New York City, Soundcraft Technical Director and Co-founder Graham Blyth was presented with the prestigious Fellowship Award “in recognition of his distinguished career in mixing console design and service to the Society”, noted AES President Wieslaw Woszczyk, who officially conferred the award at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Friday, October 5th. 
