Genelec crowned an extremely successful ISE show by winning the prestigious Manufacturer of the Year accolade at the Inavation Awards 2024 – bringing further industry acclaim for its approach to business, centred on high-quality loudspeaker solutions and sustainable development.
The Inavation Awards – run jointly by Inavate Magazine and ISE – helps set the benchmark each year for the world’s AV professionals by celebrating the very best of global AV design, integration and management, while helping AV investors discover the industry’s most promising new innovations.
This year’s Manufacturer of the Year award complements Genelec’s previous successes at the Inavation Awards, which include a 2021 Technology Award for its Smart IP networked loudspeaker family and the 2022 Sustainability Award, marking the company’s long term commitment to sustainable development.
Inavate’s judging panel closely evaluated each of the ten companies nominated for Manufacturer of the Year on a wide range of operational areas – from innovation to sustainability – making every effort to confirm the quality of each finalist's credentials.
The Awards topped a very busy ISE show for Genelec, with record attendance and a genuine feeling of warmth and positivity. The company has been an ISE exhibitor dating right back to the show’s very humble beginnings in Geneva in 2004, developing into the world’s leading AV and systems integration event – attracting over 70,000 visitors from 162 countries this year to Barcelona.
And as Genelec’s profile has grown in the world of AV, the company is seeing steadily increasing numbers of visitors to its ISE booth – where the focus this year was firmly on the Smart IP loudspeaker series, including the first preview of a brand new PoE subwoofer.
Launched in 2019, the Smart IP family has gradually grown to encompass 5 loudspeaker models, all combining exceptional sound quality with single cable networked convenience. Compatible with PoE, Dante and AES67, and integrating closely with Smart IP Manager software for system configuration, Smart IP represents a flexible, scalable and future-proof solution for installers and integrators everywhere.
Customer response to the Smart IP subwoofer preview was overwhelmingly enthusiastic and positive. Running live on the booth as part of a complete Smart IP system, Genelec demonstrated the subwoofer’s impressively high SPL and low distortion performance, powered via PoE and fed via a Dante IP stream. Housed in a slimline package, and with an efficient internal Class D amplifier stage, this represents the world’s first premium PoE subwoofer design, bringing a very powerful new dimension to the Smart IP family.
Alongside the new subwoofer, Genelec showcased the existing 4410, 4420 and 4430 wall-mounting models, the 4435 in-ceiling model and the 4436 pendant model, and demonstrated Smart IP’s compatibility with a growing range of third party automation systems.
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