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Bob Stuart Gets 2015 CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award

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CEDIA names Meridian Audio co-founder Bob Stuart recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, making him the first winner coming from the CEDIA EMEA region.

Bob Stuart Stuart receives the award at the annual CEDIA Awards Celebration at CEDIA Expo in Dalls on 17 October 2015.

As the association puts it, the Lifetime Achievement Award "recognises an individual who has exhibited outstanding, creative, innovative, and visionary leadership in the growth and advancement of the residential electronic systems industry."

Stuart started off as a audio industry consultant, and is well known for Meridian products and concepts such as the DSP320 architectural loudspeakers and the Sooloos multi-room system. He is also an inventor of entertainment technologies and formats, most recent example of which is the Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) high resolution audio format.

He is also an active member of the DVD Forum, a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a visiting Fellow at Essex University.

We are thrilled that Bob has been recognised with the CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award,” CEDIA EMEA remarks. “His unrelenting desire to ensure that the original recording retains its quality when listening at home is behind many of our industry’s innovations, and continues to drive his work today. We are especially proud that Bob is the first recipient of this prestigious, globally recognised Award to hail from the CEDIA EMEA region and warmly congratulate him on his achievement”.

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