News / Awards

New Imagine Series of Speakers

The PSB Imagine is destined to become the standard of value among audio and home-theater fans for whom real-world sonic performance is of utmost importance. Yet at the same time, PSB expects the Imagine models to reset expectations of just how an “affordable-high-end” loudspeaker can look, and of the quality standards to which they can be crafted.

Imagine T Tower | Imagine Bookshelf | Imagine C Center | Imagine S Surround

PSB at Munich High End Show

PSB Speakers will be present at the Munich High End Show from April 24th to 27th. Please come and visit us at Europe’s most important specialist audio exhibition.

Audio Product of the Year - Synchrony

After his review in the November issue of the Sound & Vision, Daniel Kumin gave the Synchrony One Home theater system his vote for the Sound & Vision 2007 Editors Choice Awards. After the votes where counted the Synchrony One Home Theater System walked away with the Sound & Vision "Audio Product of the YEAR" Award.

"Here are my speakers for the next decade or two." - Daniel Kumin, Sound & Vision

(pictured at left) Paul Barton - PSB Speakers (left) Mike Mettler - Sound and Vision (right)

Stereophile Product of the Year

PSB's Alpha B1 bookshelf speaker was voted "2007 Budget Product of the Year." Here's what Stereophile's Stephen Mejias had to say about bringing your favorite music home

PSB Synchrony in the news

Video News - The Perfect Vision's Chris Martens talks with PSB's Paul Barton about the highlights of its new flagship Synchrony series speakers.

EXCITE Award-Synchrony

2007 CustomRetailer's EXCITE Awards recognize products for their outstanding design, engineering, innovation and market presence. The Awards are determined by the overall custom electronics community, including custom retailers, installer and integrators, in addition to the Custom Retailer staff.

Product of the Year - HD Subs

PSB Speakers Receives the "Electronic House - Product Of The Year" Award, for the HD10 and HD8 Subwoofers! "a lot of bass from a small space."

TAS - Synchrony preview

"Especially noteworthy were the rich midrange and lack of any material colorations from the new tweeter"

TAS 2007 Editors Choice Awards

The Absolute Sound 2007 Editors' Choice Awards represent the gear that the editors and senior writers of The absolute Sound have selected to be most worthy of purchasing.

PSB Speakers - Product of the Year

PSB Speakers receives an award for "Loudspeakers of the year" for the Image T55 Home Theater System

Stereophile Recommended Components 2006

Can't find an honest opinion? Look no further as Stereophile editors go out on a limb and pick the industry's best audio products. Two PSB speakers where reviewed by stereophile, and two won a spot in the "Stereophile Recommended Components of 2006

6 Editors Choice Awards

PSB Speakers received Six Editors’ Choice Awards from The Perfect Vision. For loudspeakers, Subwoofers and In-wall speakers and of course the VisionSound series

PSB Speakers Get 5 Awards

PSB Speakers received FIVE Editors’ Choice Awards from The Perfect Vision. For loudspeakers, Subwoofers and In-wall speakers

PSB Speakers - Editors Choice

PSB Speakers received Three Editors’ Choice Awards from The Absolute Sound. For loudspeakers and Subwoofers.

Excite Award - In-Wall Speakers

The PSB CW800E In-Wall Loudspeaker Wins a CustomRetailer 2005 EXCITE Award.

CustomSound CHS40 Product Of The Year

The PSB CHS 40 in-cabinet speaker eliminates the problems associated with placing speakers in a cabinet. Go ahead: Put them in the cabinet! With the CHS40s, you can have a nice speaker system and a place for them too.

Home Theater 2005 RAVE Awards

"…Both the CHS80 In-Cabinet Speaker and CHS212 Subwoofer are strong, dynamic, and highly musical, and the CW383 In-Wall loudspeaker is proof that the genre..."

HI-FI Grand Prix Award

In the November 2004 issue of AudioVideo International, the PSB SubSeries 10 and Platinum T8 were awarded the HI-FI Grand Prix Award. This award is given to products for fidelity of audio reproduction, innovative design engineering, reliability, user-friendliness and value-for-price performance.

Two Reviewers Choice awards

In the End of year Awards, Sounds Stage gave The Reviewers' Choice award recognizes products that offer superior sonic performance and/or outstanding value. In his review Doug Schneider said that the Platinum M2 is "A significant achievement indeed."

Not to be outdone, the Platinum T6 also received a Readers Choice award. Wes Phillips said that "The T6 is the rare speaker that can let you forget that things like speakers exist."

Editors Best Buy Award-Image System

The Perfect Vision gave an "Editors Best Buy" award to an Image System anchored by the Image 6T. Giving the second editors Best Buy to the SubSonic 5i. TPV also gave the status of "Recommended Component" to the Platinum SubSonic 10 and the M2 System.

PSB Speakers Editors Choice 04

The May & June 2004 issue of The Perfect Vision, gave the editors choice award to an Image surround system. TPV also gave an editors choice award to the SubSonic 5i, and recommends SubSonic 10 and a Platinum M2 system.

Absolute Sound - Best Loudspeakers of the year

January/February 2004 issue of The Absolute Sound gives the Platinum M2 the award for "Best loudspeaker of the year under $2500". Listing the M2 as "...just plain great" "Does it live up to PSB’s “great for the money” rep? Well, no. Actually it goes it one better—the Platinum M2 is just plain great." Read review The June & July 2004 issue of the absolute sound, gave an editors choice award to the Image 5T. It also recommends the Alpha B's and the Platinum M2's. as "Recommended Components"

Absolute Sound - 5T - Best buy category

August & September 2003 issue of The Absolute Sound rates the 5T in it's editor's best buy category. Listing the 5T as "A killer value!" Rich, dynamic, spacious and easy on the ears, PSB’s Image 5T is yet another remarkable performer from this Canadian manufacturer. What it gives up in ultimate delicacy and detail, it more than makes up for in every other way. A killer value!

Absolute Sound gives top honors to the Alpha B

... PSB’s Alpha B... does what a good mini should: Sounds open and spacious, with precise imaging and good three-dimensionality. The midrange is honest and musically engaging, though bass and dynamics are, of course, limited. -WAYNE GARCIA

Best Buy in the $1500 - $3000 range

With pinpoint imaging, excellent dialogue clarity, and good dynamics, PSB’s Image system is another winner from a company with a history of building terrific-sounding, high-value speakers. The Image 6T towers are lively and dynamic; the 9C center channel is clean and robust; the 3LR’s mate beautifully as surrounds, and the SubSonic 6 effectively fills out the bottom end while widening dynamic contrasts. Add excellent speaker-to-speaker tonality and a large soundfield to the list of this system’s many strengths.

SubSonic 5i - Perfect Visions Editors choice

At this point no one should be surprised at what this Canadian speaker company can do in the lower-price range. Even so, the performance of this econo-sub is semi-unbelievable. Extension, dynamic slam, and good musicality from this 10" bass-reflex design makes it perfect for misers with Champagne taste.

SubSeries 7 - Best of 2002 Subwoofers

audio revolution, one of the internet's most well known audiophile web sites, Gave the SubSeries 7 the "Best of 2002 Subwoofers"

Reviewed by: Bryan Southard

"I found the PSB SubSonic 7 to be a great choice for home theater systems with a large variety of price ranges. It will provide you with solid, accurate energy for both music and movies. The Sub 7 has power, accuracy and finesse at an affordable price and the ability to make your movies rock. It’s a box that you can set up and forget, then begin enjoying your movies as you never have before."

Stereophile - Alpha B, SubSeries 5 and Image 4T

In its October 2002 issue, Stereophile again picks three PSB speakers as Recommended Components:

The Alpha B, the Image 4T and the Alpha SubSeries 5

Absolute Sound Recommends

In its October 2002 Issue, The Absolute Sound calls out two of our speakers for its list of Recommended Products: The Alpha B and Image 5T

New PSB Picks by The Sensible Sound

Every mid-year, The $ensible Sound, which places a premium on products with a high performance/price ratio, publishes its "Staff Picks." These are the choices of the magazine's demanding editorial staff. We are happy that once again PSB is amply represented.

CES Innovations 2001 Award

There is always some pretty intense scrambling to be among the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Association's prestigious Innovations Award winners at the annual Consumer Electronics Show held every January in Las Vegas. So we are delighted that at CES 2001 another PSB speaker, the Image 7PT, has joined the several other PSB models (Alpha Series, Stratus Gold-i, Stratus SubSonic subwoofers) given this accolade in the past

Hi-Fi Grand Prix Awards

The year-end (2001) edition of Audio/Video International gave us four of its coveted "Hi-Fi Grand Prix Awards.

Design and Engineering Showcase Honors

These recommendations mean a great deal to us. And while we certainly urge you to go listen and make your own judgments, we hope these listings may help you decide to do that, as may the award for excellence in design that our Stratus Goldi and to the Stratus SubSonic 3i subwoofer received in the "Innovations" competition at the 1998 Consumer Electronics Show, and the same award given to our expanded Alpha Series in the "Innovations '97" competition.