Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring the NAMM 2014 Best of Show Award Winners plus Apogee, Aviom, Grund Audio, Prism Sound, Slate Digital & Studer

January 30, 2014 New Products NAMM 2014 Best of Show Award Winners! » Aviom D800 A-Net Distributor » Grund Audio Design GP Series Loudspeakers » Prism Sound Atlas Preamplifier and I/O » Studer A-Link Digital Audio Interface for Vista X Console » Today's Review Apogee Quartet Four-Channel Preamplifier and I/O by Lynn Fuston, PAR Technical Editor Imagine a very high quality four-channel preamp, complete with DIs. Then throw in 24-bit, 192 kHz converters and a monitor controller capable of handling three sets of stereo speakers or 5.1 surround. Add to that Optical Ins (x2), MIDI capability and a WC Out. Plus a very powerful headphone output to boot. Bundle it all in a sleek polished aluminum package and sell it for less than the cost of a nice four-channel preamp. If you can imagine all that, you've just realized the value of the Apogee Quartet. More » Video of the Week Slate Digital Virtual Microphone System (VMS) Unveiled for a sneak preview at NAMM 2014, the Slate Digital Virtual Microphone System (VMS) is demonstrated here by company founder Steven Slate. The VMS is a Native running, hardware/software modeling system comprised of the ML-1 large diaphragm condenser microphone, ML-2 small diaphragm condenser, VMS Dual Preamp Converter and VMS Plug-in Module. More » No subscription to Pro Audio Review? Get on the inside track with the best peer-to-peer pro reviews in the audio production biz: visit http://myparmag.com now! Today's Blog 2014 Grammy Production Award Winners Announced “Music’s Biggest Night” returned yesterday with the 56th Annual Grammy Award, broadcast at Staples Center in Los Angeles in 5.1 surround sound on CBS. Watched these days as much for the spectacle and unique musical pairings as for the awards themselves, the event balanced the old and the new, as it featured everyone from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to Daft Punk and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. In terms of awards given to or shared with production pros, it was a big night for French dance duo Daft Punk and their raft of producers and engineers, as their first studio album in a decade, Random Access Memories, took home the album of the year and best engineered album, while their single, "Get Lucky," was garnered record of the year. The album and single also earned best dance/electronica album and best pop duo/group performance, respectively. The engineering, production, mastering and remixer winners included ... More » Click The Covers — Digital Edition Quick Links Months of PAR's digital edition reviews are just a click away! More » The 2013 PAR Excellence Awards » 2013 marks the second year of the PAR Excellence Awards as a reader-voted program, presented by the Editors and Contributors of Pro Audio Review (PAR) magazine. An online balloting system allowed voting privileges to Pro Audio Review print and digital subscribers from the mail date of PAR August 2013's issue through November 15, 2013. Without further ado, here are the winners ... Events 2014 NAB Show, Las Vegas »

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