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NAD VISO 1 Wins International Design Award
NAD Electronics VISO 1 digital music system wins the 2011 Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
NAD Electronics announced that its NAD VISO 1 was selected for a 2011 Good Design award in the electronics category from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The company’s digital music system was launched this fall and sells for $700 MSRP. The NAD VISO 1 vied in Chicago and New York against entries from over 48 nations for the award, which was founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
The awards bestow international recognition upon the world's most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.
The VISO 1 was designed by New York-based David Farrage of DF-ID Industrial Design. According to the company, the unit "combines the highest levels of acoustic and electrical performance with compact size and elegant proportions. Its precision metal ring forms the essence of structural harmony and visual simplicity, while elegantly liberating the cradle from the sleek speaker cabinet to provide acoustic space for the hi-fi speakers nestled below. The NAD VISO 1 is a contemporary design that emphasizes visual minimalism by including only the most essential controls and connections."
The system docks and charges iPhones and iPods, and has aptX Bluetooth wireless capability. It also incorporates NAD's high-end Direct Digital DAC/amplifier technology. The NAD VISO 1 was refined and tweaked by speaker designer Paul Barton of sister company PSB Speakers at the National Research Council in Canada—one of the most sophisticated audio testing facilities in the world.
The company’s digital music system was launched this fall and sells for $700 MSRP. The NAD VISO 1 vied in Chicago and New York against entries from over 48 nations for the award, which was founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
The awards bestow international recognition upon the world's most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.
The VISO 1 was designed by New York-based David Farrage of DF-ID Industrial Design. According to the company, the unit "combines the highest levels of acoustic and electrical performance with compact size and elegant proportions. Its precision metal ring forms the essence of structural harmony and visual simplicity, while elegantly liberating the cradle from the sleek speaker cabinet to provide acoustic space for the hi-fi speakers nestled below. The NAD VISO 1 is a contemporary design that emphasizes visual minimalism by including only the most essential controls and connections."
The system docks and charges iPhones and iPods, and has aptX Bluetooth wireless capability. It also incorporates NAD's high-end Direct Digital DAC/amplifier technology. The NAD VISO 1 was refined and tweaked by speaker designer Paul Barton of sister company PSB Speakers at the National Research Council in Canada—one of the most sophisticated audio testing facilities in the world.
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