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17/06/2026

Richard and Ani have arrived in Las Vegas, ready and raring to go for InfoComm Show 2026!

After a quick sprint across the desert following some great client visits in LA, they made it to the Strip just in time for a brilliant pre-show soirée last night hosted by Heather Rafter of RafterMarsh - great conversations with old and new friends from the live audio world.

Today it's day one on the show floor. Watch this space for updates as they take the temperature and get around the first exhibits.

17/06/2026

The InfoComm Show is already well underway in Las Vegas with pre-exhibit training by AVIXAAVIXA and individual manufacturers, education sessions and plenty of early business and networking going on.

Our friends Pro AVL MEA and Pro AVL Asia Magazine have been taking an early sense check and here Sue Gould talks through some of the key aspects of this year's event and what to expect including the new hall layout with the shiny new North Hall, and the 'Work' and 'Play' config which hopefully will feel like a logical layout, helped by the close proximity of the North and Central halls, with the plethora of audio demo rooms conveniently located in between the two.

We're here all week and are looking forward to seeing how the attendee mix is this year, seeing what's hot around the show floor.and meeting with clients and industry friends.

Enjoy the week and a few days away from the football ;-)

12/06/2026

The countdown to InfoComm Show 2026 with AVIXA is on.

North America's largest professional AV trade show returns to the Las Vegas Convention Center next week, and with 800+ exhibitors, 250+ speakers, and 30,000+ professionals from 95 countries, it remains one of the most important weeks in the AV calendar.

This year we're watching a few threads closely: AI's continued sprawl across every product category, the deliberate elevation of audio within the show's structure, and a workforce conversation that's finally getting the mainstage attention it deserves.

Read our full show preview now, covering the show’s new hall structure, the education programme, the AI Accelerator, and what the Vegas rotation means for who you'll find in the halls this year.

👉 https://interfacio.com/infocomm-2026-back-to-vegas-as-the-industry-finds-its-footing/

Richard Wear and Ani Simon-Hart will be on site throughout the exhibition days. If you'd like to connect to talk talent strategy, hiring challenges, or where the market is heading across North America, Europe, the Middle East, or APAC - drop us a line at [email protected].

The countdown is on for InfoComm 2026, North America's largest professional AV trade show, returning to the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 13–19. With global markets opening up, major acquisitions reshaping the competitive map, and software platforms steadily displacing legacy hardware, we'...

10/06/2026

Our May News Digest is live, and it's been a busy month across the audio, AV, broadcast and live events landscape.

This month's lead story is one for the immersive audio community: Portishead guitarist Adrian Utley performed a world-first spatial audio livestream at SXSW London, transmitting a live 360° composition to MIT's Spatial Sound Lab in Boston via matching d&b Soundscape systems. A genuinely exciting moment for live events and spatial audio technology.

Elsewhere in May: India's rising concert economy is set to fuel a boom in its AV and lighting industry, the NAMM CEO testifies before the USTR on the damaging impact of global tariffs on the US music industry, and inMusic moves to acquire Native Instruments. We also cover virtual production's skills gap, broadcast tech's shift from hardware to software platforms, AVIXA's scholarship for the next generation of AV professionals, and 50 years of change in hi-fi.

Read the full digest now: https://interfacio.com/may-news-digest-2026/

AV Magazine, The Hindu, NAMM, AVIXA, What Hi-Fi?, NewscastStudio, Harvard Business Review, InMusic Europe LTD

May has been a month of expansion, transformation and connection across the audio, AV, broadcast and live events landscape. The calendar has been packed with industry gatherings, such as AES Copenhagen, PLASA Leeds and MPTS, bringing the community together as the sector moves into the height of summ...

04/06/2026

New Role: Technical Lead, Loudspeakers - Berlin

Our client is a well-known and respected name in the professional audio and music production market, trusted by engineers, producers, and musicians worldwide for their precision-engineered solutions. They are seeking a Technical Lead based in Berlin to own and drive the hardware development of their loudspeaker product line.

📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
💡 Industry: Professional Audio and Loudspeakers
🔧 Technical leadership role: 5+ years' experience leading engineering or technical teams required

You will be a confident, hands-on technical leader with deep knowledge of active loudspeaker design, electronics, embedded firmware, QA and compliance. Equally comfortable mentoring a team of hardware and QA engineers as you are making complex technical decisions, you will bridge the gap between your team's capabilities and the business's needs, ensuring decisions are made with both quality and commercial impact in mind.

You will oversee new product introduction, change management, and system architecture, ensuring designs meet CE, FCC, RoHS, and other relevant regulatory standards, collaborating with production teams in Germany and Asia.

If this sounds like the exciting and challenging engineering leadership role you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you!

👉 Apply now: https://interfacio.com/technical-lead-loudspeakers-berlin/

03/06/2026

Audio Engineering Society Copenhagen, Day 3 - and what a way to finish.

As we prepared to bid farewell to Copenhagen after a packed and stimulating three days, our last day included a fascinating paper by Dr Thomas McKenzie of the University of Edinburgh analysing guitar string ageing and exploring potential techniques to simulate or eliminate these effects using real-time DSP.

This was followed by a lecture by four true audio recording and mastering experts, titled 'What are you doing with that compressor?!'. Margaret Luthar, Stefan Bock, Richard King, and the renowned George Massenburg walked us through the key parameters and variables, with practical tips and go-tos for different project, client, and engineer use cases, including reflections on how changing consumer media loudness rules are impacting best practices in sound engineering. Needless to say, ideas on how to manage Threshold, Ratio and gain, along side the general issue of “crushing mixes” were hot topics across applications including immersive mixing, vinyl cutting and music recording.

In the afternoon, the education section held its closing Awards Ceremony, with prizes for the Student Recording Competition and the Student Design Competition. The SDC overall gold winner was Stefan Baumgartner, from the Kunstuni Graz KUG in Graz, for his Double Helix velocity-sensitive music control and MIDI computer keyboard which the judges felt was strong in both innovation and on design for manufacturer. We awarded our own Interfacio Go To Market Mentoring Prize to David Wieland from ETH Zürich for his 'Polymap' 64-channel polyphonic guitar pickup system who delivered a engaging presentation of a well-developed and conceived design with some carefully considered commercial potential. Congratulations to all the entrants and winners.

In the words of Brecht De Man, AES President: AES uniquely brings together research, education and industry, and we felt that this year's convention was a perfect illustration of how this works and why it is so important for the future of audio. Thanks to Christoph Thompson, Ian Corbett, and Jesper Andersen for your support and some of the photos.

A superb few days in Denmark only slightly marred by the 2-3 hour queues at passport control for all of us non-EU visitors when we tried to leave ;-)

30/05/2026

Day 2 at the Audio Engineering Society convention in Copenhagen at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU and Richard Wear and Connor Booth were in full working mode 🎧

The morning kicked off with some serious geeking out - getting some cool headphone immersive room simulation with Brandenburg Labs and learning about the latest in multiphysics modelling from COMSOL.

In the afternoon we took on our 'ex-officio' judging role at the Saul Walker Design Competition. The standard of the designs and presentations was high, making our final decision a difficult one and we were kept on our mental toes assesses aspects including Design, Communication, Presentation, Motivation, Vision and Commercial. The winner of the Interfacio Go-To-Market Mentoring Prize will be announced on Saturday afternoon at the Education section award ceremony. So no spoilers here ;-)

Immediately after there was a small but buzzing education and career fair, with institutions showcasing postgraduate programmes from as far afield as McGill University in Montreal and Kyushu University in Japan. It was great a number of budding design engineers, including several who'd made the trip from the UK.

After some sweltering days, a welcome drop of rain rolled in, though it did nothing to dampen the mood. Spirits were particularly high among a group of DTU students we met with who were celebrating completing their Masters a few hours earlier.

We rounded off the day attending the student social alongside our co-sponsors Genelec, enjoying a boat tour around the waterways taking in the city sights including the iconic Opera building before landing and savoring the super street food and 'beach' bars at Reffen.

29/05/2026

Day 1 at the Audio Engineering Society European Convention in Copenhagen - at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU.

The stunning DTU campus made for a brilliant backdrop to a vibrant opening day at the AES European Convention in Copenhagen.

We kicked things off with an insightful session from the AES leadership board, covering how the society balances education, research and industry interests - and the wealth of opportunities available for students, academics and business professionals to get involved and help shape the future of the world's largest and most influential global audio engineering society.

From there, it was great to reconnect with familiar faces from previous conventions and our friends from the AES Education section, and to spend time chatting with some of the exhibiting manufacturers, including recent newcomer to the immersive audio scene, spatial reference headphone maker Areal Technologies from Belgium and the team from established high-end California based headphone company Audeze.

The evening wrapped up nicely with a quick stop at the end-of-day welcome reception before heading into the heart of Copenhagen's waterfront to Auro-3D and Dynaudio's hosted drinks and demos at Black Tornado Studios, rounded off with some great street food as the northern sun set on a truly enjoyable first day.

27/05/2026

We’re heading to Audio Engineering Society Europe 2026 in Copenhagen this week! 🇩🇰

It's the first time AES Europe has returned to Copenhagen in over 30 years - in that time the convention has toured cities right across the continent, so it's great to be back. We're proud to once again be awarding our Go to Market Mentoring Prize at the Student Design Competition, taking place at midday on Friday 29th.

We'll also be taking part in the Education & Career Fair on Friday from 1:30–3:00pm, and we'd love to meet you there if you're attending and keen to discuss career opportunities in the industry. The fair takes place immediately after the Student Design Competition, in the same room, so if you're involved with the SDC, stick around, and maybe even find your dream job!

We're looking forward to connecting with institutes, postgraduates, graduates, and undergraduates across the audio world, as well as the wealth of technology companies that will be in Copenhagen.

And if you're joining us for the Student Social on Friday evening, we'll see you on the boat! We're delighted to be co-sponsoring the evening alongside Genelec.

Read our full AES Copenhagen preview here: https://interfacio.com/aes-europe-2026-copenhagen-calling/

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After three decades away, the AES Convention is finally heading back to Denmark, and the global audio community is ready. From 28-30 May 2026, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Copenhagen will play host to AES Europe 2026, only the third time in the convention’s history that it has touc...

18/05/2026

New Role: Sales Director - Pro & Commercial Audio, US & Canada

Our client is a powerhouse in the ultra-high-end audio market, catering to audiophiles, professional studios, and luxury automotive brands. They are seeking a Sales Director to drive revenue growth and strategic market expansion throughout the US and Canada across their Studio, Musical Instruments (MI), and rapidly growing Commercial Audio channels.

📍 Location: United States & Canada
💡 Industry: Pro & Commercial Audio
🎯 Senior leadership role: 10+ years of Pro Audio sales experience required

The successful candidate will be a strategic yet hands-on leader who will define and execute a multi-year growth strategy, structuring and scaling the Pro / Commercial Audio go-to-market model while owning revenue, forecasting, and pipeline discipline. You will be experienced in navigating complex distribution models, including independent rep firms and integrators, with expertise in demand generation and the technical fluency to champion a world-class premium portfolio.

As a brand ambassador, you will engage with consultants, architects, and AV specifiers to drive product specification at the earliest project stages, collaborating cross-functionally with global teams to scale a data-driven sales organisation that preserves premium brand equity while delivering elite commercial results. If this opportunity sounds interesting to you, don't hesitate to apply!

👉 Apply now: https://interfacio.com/sales-director-pro-commercial-audio-us-canada/