New York, NY -- NewBay Media's Residential Systems magazine has selected 48 finalists for its fifth-annual Resi Awards. An esteemed panel of independent judges chose this year's noteworthy finalists from a record number of entries.
 
"The Resi Award is the only prize recognizing the most innovative product industrial designs in the custom installation channel," says Jeremy Glowacki, editorial director of Residential Systems. "This year's finalists combined a keen sense of aesthetics with intuitive and ergonomic performance efficiency."

Resi Awards judges recognized three finalists in each of the contest's 16 product categories. This year's Resi Awards finalists are (click the subhead for a slide show of each category):

AV Mounts
    Chief Manufacturing's Thinstall Series
    OmniMount's Power 40
    Sanus Systems' VF5023

AV Processor/Receiver
    Classe Audio's SSP-800
    Denon's AVP-A1HDCI
    Niles Audio's ZR-6

CD/DVD Player
    Denon's DVD-3800BDCI
    Marantz's BD8002
    Samsung's BD-P1500

Combined Product System or Family
    Meridian's AD88
    Samsung's HT-X715
    Sooloos' Sooloos system

Custom Install Accessory
    iPort's FS Series
    OmniMount's Prism 50
    Sanus Systems' VF2022

Media Server
    Escient's VS-200
    Kaleidescape's 1080p Mini Player
    Niveus' Pro Series n9

Power Amp
    Denon's POA-3012CI
    Marantz's MM8003
    Sunfire's Theater Grand Amp

Power Management
    Furman's Elite i-Series
    Panamax's MAX PM Family
    Richard Gray's Power Company's Extender

Projection Screen
    Beamax's X-series
    Screen Excellence acoustically transparent screen
    Screen Research's LeWing

Remote Control - Handheld
    RTI's T3
    Universal Electronics Inc.'s NevoS70
    Universal Remote Control's KP-900

Speakers - Bookshelf
    Boston Acoustics' SoundWare
    Boston Acoustics' TVee Model Two
    Sunfire's HRS

Speakers - On-Wall or In-Wall
    Samsung's HT-X810
    Snell Acoustics' OH-LCR7
    Wisdom's Sage L75i

Speakers - Tower
    B&W's CT8.4 LCRs
    BG's Radia Z-92
    Niles Audio's PB6Si

Touchscreen Control Panel
    AMX's MVP-5200i
    Control4's 7-inch Panel
    ELAN Home Systems' VIA!Valet10.0-EM

Video Display Device
    Samsung's Series 7
    Sharp's LC-52SE94U AQUOS LCD TV
    SunBriteTV's Model 4610HD

Video Projector
    Cineversum's CVBW3
    Panasonic's AE2000
    SIM2's Grand Cinema C3X

Each category winner will be announced at the 2008 Resi Awards reception, held at 5 p.m., during CEDIA EXPO in Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, September 3, 2008, in Room 206 of the Colorado Convention Center.