Awards.

An overview of the international awards d&b audiotechnik has received for innovation, audio performance, and sustainability.

2026

Best of Show Award @ ISE 2026 – U-Series

The d&b U-Series has won the Best of Show Award at ISE 2026 in the Systems Contractor News category. The award recognizes outstanding innovation and product performance in professional installed audio.

This award highlights the U-Series’ role in redefining flexibility, performance, and installation efficiency in modern audio environments.

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Inavation Award 2026 – CCL System

The d&b CCL (Compact Cardioid Line Array) System was honored at the Inavation Awards 2026 in the Loudspeaker category. This recognition highlights the system’s cardioid performance, single channel architecture, and its impact on elevating audio quality in venues of all sizes.

This accolade underscores how the CCL System redefines compact loudspeaker design through broadband directivity control, exceptional clarity, and remarkable efficiency for both installed and live environments.

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2025

ABTT Award 2025 – CCL System

The CCL System was awarded ABTT Sound Product of the Year 2025, recognizing its broadband directivity control, single channel architecture, and its ability to deliver exceptional clarity in acoustically challenging environments.

This win underscores the CCL System’s role in modern loudspeaker design, bringing broadband directivity and efficiency into a compact, installation and tour-friendly format.

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Best of Show Award @ ISE 2025 – CCL System

CCL (Compact Cardioid Line Array) won the Best of Show Award at ISE 2025 in the Sound & Video Contractor category. The award recognizes its groundbreaking cardioid technology, compact passive design, and exceptional performance for installed and live sound environments.

This award highlights CCL’s cardioid performance in a compact line array format, delivering superior directivity, clarity, and efficiency for a wide range of applications.

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2024

PLASA Award for Innovation 2024 – SustainSymphony

SustainSymphony, d&b’s cloud-based sustainability management platform, received the PLASA Award for Innovation 2024. The judges highlighted its carbon tracking, customizable sustainability workflows, data-driven insights, and its ability to make sustainability management accessible across the live events ecosystem.

The win emphasizes SustainSymphony’s ability to simplify sustainability reporting, foster transparent collaboration across organizers and suppliers, and support the industry's shift toward measurable, responsible event practices.

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Green Guardian Award 2024 – SustainSymphony

SustainSymphony was recognized with the Green Guardian Award 2024, celebrating its impact as an accessible, collaborative, and data-driven sustainability management platform for the live events industry.

The Green Guardian highlights SustainSymphony’s role as a tool that empowers organizers, venues, and suppliers to embed sustainability into every stage of event planning and reporting.

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2022

German Awards for Sustainability Projects

d&b audiotechnik received recognition and an award at the German Awards for Sustainability Projects (Deutscher Award für Nachhaltigkeitsprojekte) in the Recycling Category, at a June 9th ceremony in Berlin. The award recognised d&b’s CPO (Certified Pre-Owned) program, which offers customers the opportunity to purchase remanufactured d&b systems.

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Top 100 Award

German audio technology and solutions company d&b audiotechnik has been honored as one of the TOP 100 most Innovative, medium-sized companies in Germany.

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2021

Green Guardian Award

The Green Guardians Guide, spearheaded by the Green Events and Innovations Conference and IQ Magazine, is a new yearly initiative highlighting some of the work being done around the world to reduce the carbon footprint of the live entertainment business.

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2019

AV Awards in Venue of the Year Category for Royal Albert Hall Project

d&b audiotechnik won the 2019 AV Awards in the Venue of the Year Category for its transformative audio system installation at The Royal Albert Hall. The installation features the world’s largest single-room audio system with over four hundred and fifty individual d&b loudspeakers.

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Technology for Entertainment/Live Events - Audio Award

The d&b Soundscape collected the ‘Technology award for Entertainment/Live Events: Audio’ prize at the InAVation Awards 2019, which took place during the ISE Trade show in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Gold at “Focus Open 2018”

The GSL System from German audio technology company d&b audiotechnik received Gold at “Focus Open 2018”, the highest level of award at the international design award, conferred by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.

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Technology Innovation of the Year Award

he d&b Soundscape has collected its latest accolade, from the organizers of PALM Expo, India’s leading trade show for professional audio and lighting.

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Red Dot Award for KSL product design

The d&b KSL System has been making a name for itself with its acoustical performance, and has now attracting attention for its design. The latest addition to the SL-Series has been awarded one of the most coveted international seals of quality for good design, the "Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019".

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2018

Honorary employer in civil protection awarded

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the co-workers at d&b, the company has been recognized as an honorary employer in civil protection in the state of Baden-Württemberg. 

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