Manley XXX Anniversary Dual Mono Mic Pre Wins 2020 SOS Readers’ Choice Award

WOW! HUGE THANKS to Sound On Sound readers for honoring our XXX Anniversary Edition Dual Mono Mic Pre with an SOS Readers’ Choice Award!

We are so excited that you appreciate this very special unit – we sure did enjoy building them for you.

The SOS Awards launched in 2010 with a mission to honour and celebrate the finest products in our industry.

The ‘Gear Of The Year’ Awards, Chosen By The Readers Of Sound On Sound

Voting opened on September 19th for the 10th annual SOS Awards and continues throughout October and November 2019. The results will, as usual, be compiled and announced in time for presentation of the awards at the Winter NAMM show in January 2020.

Each category consists of a shortlist of nominations, chosen by the SOS editorial team, and we’d like you to help us identify the outstanding product in each group. You are not required to vote in every category — if you don’t have any strong opinions on some of the product groups, then there’s no need to vote for anything in those categories.

We took the decision back in 2017 to focus the nominations on products that came on sale, or were tested and reviewed by us, in the 12 months prior to the voting cutoff date, thereby placing a greater emphasis on innovation and contemporary design.*

We were delighted to see that the change resulted in even more of our loyal readership letting us have their considered opinions on the year’s new products. The changes we made to the nomination categories at the same time also seem to have been appreciated, helping to keep the nominations appropriately focused and relevant. Markets move and change over time, and it is important that we should be able to move and change with them. Having been well received by nominees and voters alike, we’ll be sticking with the new format for the foreseeable future.