The sole 2010 Emmy Engineering Award has been given to Stagetec for the Nexus Digital Audio Routing system. The official announcement from the Academy of Arts and Sciences states that the Nexus is ‘the finest, most versatile audio routing system available today’.
The prestigious award is presented to an individual, company or organisation for developments in engineering that are either so extensive an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission, recording or reception of television. In particular, the committee of the 62nd Awards emphasised the quality of the patented True-Match converter which ensures realistic signal conversion from the analog to the digital domain.
‘We are really proud and consider this award a special reward for our efforts not only in the TV broadcast market in the US, but also worldwide,’ says Dr Klaus-Peter Scholz, MD of Stagetec in Berlin. ‘First, we are really thankful to our prominent group of developers around Dr. Helmut Jahne and Uwe Winkler. Secondly, B Morgan Martin of our partner GMA has been instrumental in making the Nexus such a success in the US. Our greatest thanks, however, go to our customers. For many years, they have been a key driver of innovation with their manifold requirements and have successfully managed a large number of challenges using our products and expertise. They, too, have their considerable share in this significant award.’
The Nexus routing system was introduced in 1994 and has seen continuous improvement with the addition of groundbreaking interface modules. Today, several hundred installations worldwide, including more than 4,500 Nexus Base Devices, are proof of the exceptional quality, robustness and versatility of the system.
Nexus is not the only product by Stagetec that has received an international award: In 1997, the Cantus system, which was the first digital audio mixing console released by Stagetec’s Mediagroup, received the IF Award for outstanding product design. In 2006, the Mediagroup celebrated an even more important design honor when the IF Award in Gold was presented to the Aurus digital mixing-console system.
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