SVI Magazine

For five-years we've taken great pride in being able to celebrate the achievements of our industry, and have dedicated ourselves to filling each issue with a wealth of innovations, thoughts, ideas and successes. This year, we decided that wasn't enough – we wanted to offer more, and so set about thinking up a way to acknowledge some truly inspirational products, to congratulate our hard-working colleagues and, most of all, to give out our stamp of approval to those who have earned it. Finally, after days of racking our brains, we came up with the perfect solution and the SVI Awards were born...

Okay, it was more like an hour or two of brain racking within an SVI staff meeting, but the point is that for the past four-months we have been gathering your votes for the products that you, as industry professionals, have chosen as the most deserving of praise and our highly-distinguished awards sticker. We would like to once again thank everyone for voting, and with great pleasure announce the winners of the SVI Awards 2008!

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SPEAKERS

Categories:

BEST FLOORSTANDING SPEAKER
Monitor Audio Bronze BR5

BEST BOOKSHELF SPEAKER
Acoustic Energy Aelite

BEST SUBWOOFER
Sony SA-WX900

BEST OVERALL
Acoustic Energy Aelite

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY

Categories:

BEST PLASMA TV
Pioneer KURO

BEST LCD TV
Sharp 52X series

BEST OTHER TV
Sony XEL-1

BEST PROJECTOR
InFocus IN82

BEST OVERALL
Pioneer KURO

RADIO

Categories:

BEST DAB
Pure One

BEST INTERNET RADIO
Tangent Quattro

BEST HI-FI TUNER
NAD C445

BEST OVERALL
Tangent Quattro

HI-FI

Categories:

BEST CD-PLAYER
Denon DCD-700AE

BEST PRE-AMPLIFIER
Yamaha A-S2000

BEST STEREO AMPLIFIER
Onkyo A-9755

BEST MINI HI-FI SYSTEM
Arcam Solo Movie 5.1

BEST OVERALL
Arcam Solo Movie 5.1

AV FURNITURE / MOUNTS

Categories:

BEST FLAT-PANEL STAND
Atacama Equinox

BEST FLAT-PANEL MOUNT
Nexus NXL704

BEST PROJECTOR MOUNT
OmniMount 3N1-PJT

BEST SPEAKER BRACKET
Vivanco WMS 705

BEST OVERALL
Atacama Equinox

ACCESSORIES

Categories:

BEST LEAD/CABLE
Monster HDMI

BEST HEADPHONES
Sennheiser PXC 350

BEST UNIVERSAL REMOTE
Logitech Harmony 1000

BEST OVERALL
Sennheiser PXC 350

iPOD INTEGRATION SOLUTION

Categories:

BEST PORTABLE SPEAKER SYSTEM FOR iPOD
IXOS Argo

BEST HOME SPEAKER SYSTEM FOR iPOD
Fatman iTube 182

BEST OVERALL
Fatman iTube 182

HOME CINEMA

Categories:

BEST DVD-PLAYER
Onkyo LV-S501

BEST HIGH DEFINITION DISC PLAYER
Sony BDP-S500

BEST PVR
Humax PVR-9200T

BEST RECEIVER
NAD T785

BEST SURROUND SOUND SYSTEM
Tannoy SFX5.1

BEST OVERALL
Sony BDP-S500

CI

SPEAKERS

Categories:

BEST FLAT-PANEL SPEAKER
Artcoustic DF Series

BEST IN-WALL / IN-CEILING SPEAKER
SpeakerCraft AIM Series

BEST OVERALL
SpeakerCraft AIM Series

CONTROL

Categories:

BEST AV DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Ashridge ZÕN

BEST LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM
Lutron GRAFIK Eye

BEST HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Crestron

BEST USER CONTROL PRODUCT
Philips Pronto

BEST OVERALL
Philips Pronto

MEDIA DISTRIBUTION

Categories:

BEST MUSIC SERVER
Imerge MS5000

BEST VIDEO SERVER
Kaleidescape

BEST OVERALL
Kaleidescape