Awards

The judges were truly impressed with the bi-directional communication and real-time ability to monitor passive speaker systems using existing speaker cables. The inclusion of a microphone and inclinometer opens up new verification opportunities in a wide variety of sound reinforcement applications including PAVA, touring and more.

AV Technology, one of Future plc's pro-AV publications, named Powersoft's SpeakerMATE a Best of Show winner at ISE 2026. SpeakerMATE is the first application of Powersoft's AnyMATE platform, enabling passive loudspeakers to report identity, status and diagnostics over existing speaker cables with no network or external power required.

Powersoft's ultra-compact NOTA 142 amplifier (140 W across two channels, with PoE/PoE+ and USB-C connectivity) was shortlisted by the judges and voted Best Audio Technology by Inavate readers at the 2026 Inavation Awards. The win recognized a pocket-sized amplification platform for space-sensitive commercial, conferencing and retrofit environments.

AV Magazine's expert judging panel named Powersoft's NOTA 142, an ultra-compact PoE/PoE+ amplifier, Audio Technology of the Year at the AV Awards 2025, revealed at the gala ceremony at Evolution London. The win recognised how the pocket-sized platform brings professional amplification and DSP to small installed spaces over a single network cable.

Powersoft's UNICA cloud-connected install amplifier platform won the Audio category of the Technology Awards at the 2025 Inavation Awards. The award, decided by a reader vote after a judges' shortlist, endorsed UNICA as a next-generation, energy-efficient amplification platform for fixed installations.

rAVe [PUBS] editors named Powersoft's UNICA T the Best New Live Events Product in the audio category of their Best of InfoComm 2025 awards. The touring-oriented evolution of the cloud-connected UNICA amplifier platform was singled out among all new products on the InfoComm 2025 show floor.

At the Inavation Awards ceremony held in Barcelona on 30 January 2024, Powersoft won the Applied Technology category for its amplification technology deployed at Sphere in Las Vegas. The award recognizes real-world application of technology, and the win is confirmed by both Inavate's winners announcement and Powersoft's official awards page.

The Alassane Ouattara Olympic Stadium of Ebimpé (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), West Africa's largest stadium, won the Stadium category at the MONDO-DR Awards 2024. Its 104-loudspeaker PA is driven entirely by Powersoft: 61 Quattrocanali 4804 DSP+D and 14 Duecanali 6404 DSP+D amplifiers, managed via ArmoníaPlus.

At the 2023 Inavation Awards ceremony held during ISE in Barcelona, Powersoft was crowned Manufacturer of the Year, the jury-decided business award honouring the outstanding AV manufacturer of the year. It is a company-wide recognition of Powersoft's innovation and market performance rather than a single-product prize.

Powersoft's UNICA cloud-based amplifier platform won a Best of Show award at ISE 2023, judged by Installation magazine (Future plc). Unveiled at the show alongside the Universo cloud control platform, UNICA introduced a single, cloud-connected amplifier platform for medium to large installations.

Seattle's net-zero-carbon Climate Pledge Arena won the Sustainability Award at the MONDO-DR Awards 2022 in Las Vegas. Powersoft's compact, energy-efficient Mezzo amplifier platform (58 units) powering the venue's distributed audio was a key part of the sustainability story behind the win.

Powersoft won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award at the 2021 Inavation Awards for its support of Crew Nation, the global relief fund helping live-event crews left without work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The jury-decided business award recognized the company's commitment to the live-events community in a year the industry stood still.

The Xi'an Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in China, a US$4.7 million audio installation by integrator EZ Pro built on Powersoft amplification and ArmoníaPlus software, won the Leisure & Entertainment category of the 2021 Inavation Project of the Year Awards. The venue, comprising a 60,000-seat stadium plus gymnasium and aquatic theatre, hosted the 14th China National Games.

At FRONT of HOUSE magazine's second annual Gold Star Product Awards, presented at the NAMM Show in 2020, Powersoft's T Series was honored in the touring amplifier category, with the award presented to company co-founder Claudio Lastrucci. The Gold Star Awards recognize audio products that have proven themselves by gaining traction in the marketplace.

Powersoft's T Series touring amplifier platform won a 2020 Readers' Choice Award, decided by an annual online ballot of pro-audio readers. The win came shortly after the T Series' 2019 launch, confirming its rapid adoption among live-sound professionals.

Powersoft co-founder and R&D director Claudio Lastrucci received the Industry Influencer Award at the 2020 Inavation Awards in Amsterdam. The honour recognized his pioneering work on Class D amplification — including his 1996 patent and the first stable high-power Class D prototypes — that shaped modern professional audio amplification.

Powersoft's ArmoníaPlus system manager software won the tenth annual Readers' Choice Product Award in the Power Amplifiers: Control & Monitoring category, announced in January 2019. The edition tallied a record of more than 50,000 reader votes.

Sound & Video Contractor's panel of CTS-certified judges awarded Powersoft's Mezzo a Best of Show Award at InfoComm 2019, where the compact install amplifier platform made its debut. The recognition placed Mezzo among roughly 40 products judged the strongest launches of the show.

Powersoft's Quattrocanali four-channel install amplifier series won the Technology for Leisure Venues category at the 2018 InAVation Awards, where winners were decided by a public vote with more than 30,000 valid ballots cast. The award endorsed Quattrocanali's energy-efficient Class D platform for small- to medium-scale installations.

At the inaugural mondo*dr Awards in 2017, Parc Olympique Lyonnais — the £340m stadium built for Euro 2016 — won Best Sporting Venue. The entire stadium PA system is driven by Powersoft Ottocanali eight-channel install amplifiers.

Powersoft's Ottocanali DSP+D Series was voted most innovative audio product of the year (non-loudspeaker category) at the 10th edition of the InAVation Awards, presented at ISE 2016 in Amsterdam. The eight-channel install amplifiers, delivering up to 12,000 W with onboard DSP, control and monitoring, established Powersoft's multichannel install platform on the world stage.

Powersoft's X Series emerged as the winner in the Power Amplifier Products category of the Readers' Choice Awards announced in January 2015, after thousands of reader ballots were tallied. The flagship X Series brought multi-channel high-power amplification with integrated DSP and Dante to the touring market.

At Installation magazine's inaugural InstallAwards in London, Powersoft received the Star Product Award in the Hospitality category (sponsored by Crestron) for its M-Force moving-magnet transducer technology, deployed in the subwoofer system of the Avalon Hollywood nightclub. The jury of industry experts singled out M-Force for delivering cleaner, clearer low-frequency reproduction in a demanding club environment - early third-party validation of a technology that became a Powersoft flagship.

The Ottocanali 12K4 multichannel amplifier won the Power Amplifiers category in the fifth annual Readers' Choice Awards, announced in January 2014. Powersoft won both categories in which it was nominated that year.

Deva, Powersoft's self-contained multifunctional multimedia device, topped the Wired, Wireless & Infrared Communication category in the fifth annual Readers' Choice Awards announced in January 2014. It was one of two Powersoft wins in that edition, alongside the Ottocanali 12K4.

Powersoft earned recognition at AV Magazine's AV Awards with the Ottocanali 1204, its eight-channel install amplifier combining high channel density and energy efficiency in a single rack unit. The nod from the UK's leading pro-AV awards helped establish Powersoft's credentials in the fixed-installation market beyond its touring heritage.

Powersoft's K10 touring amplifier, delivering up to 12,000 W from a single rack-space chassis, earned a 2013 Readers' Choice Award voted by pro-audio readers. The K Series was the company's flagship touring platform of that era.

Powersoft's M Series HDSP won a 2012 Readers' Choice Award, voted by pro-audio readers. The compact single-rack-unit M Series combined switch-mode amplification with onboard DSP for live and installed sound applications.