SoundStage!
Jim Thiel and Kathy Gornik of Thiel Audio
accept the Exceptional Value award for their company's CS1.6 loudspeakers... [www.thielaudio.com]
...while Terry Dorn (left), Warren Gehl
(center), and Dave Gordon (right) accept the same award for the Audio Research SP16
preamp. [www.audioresearch.com]
Steve Winey (left) and Wendell Diller of
Magnepan accept the Innovation in Design award for the MGMC1 speaker, which is now
Magnepan's biggest seller.
Hideo Kitazawa (left) and Kazutoshi Yamada
accept the Aesthetics & Sound award for the Zanden Model 5000 Mk II DAC. [www.zandenaudio.com]
Also accepting the award for Aesthetics &
Sound for the 75 Wi mono amplifiers are Robert Lamare (left), Francois Lemay (middle) and
Michel Vanden Broeck (right) of Tenor Audio.
The Best Product Debut award goes to Amphion's
argon2 speaker. Accepting are Stirling Trayle (left), Amphion's new distributor in the US,
and Anssi Hyvönen of Amphion.
Our Edge of the Art award went to Orpheus
Labs, whose Two multichannel preamp greatly impressed both Jeff Fritz and Doug Schneider.
Accepting are (left to right) Daniel Oertli, Florian Cossy, and Reynaud Gentizon.
Energy's C-3 speaker was our Budget Leader.
Accepting the award are Energy head designer John Tchilingurian (left) and Audio Products
International president Howard Heiber. [www.energy-speakers.com]
The Hall of Fame award goes to a product that
has achieved "classic" status, and this certainly applies to the Wilson Audio
WATT/Puppy, now in its series 7 iteration. Accepting the award are David (left), Sheryl
Lee, and Darryl Wilson of Wilson Audio. [www.wilsonaudio.com]
