Some of the most meaningful recognition comes directly from the people who design, specify, install, and support AV systems every day.

That's why we're proud to share that the Community CCA-80 constant coverage aisle loudspeaker has won a 2026 rAVe Readers' Choice Award in the Favorite Loudspeaker category.

To everyone in the AV community who nominated and voted for the CCA-80: thank you.

Recognition chosen by the AV community

The rAVe Readers' Choice Awards celebrate the products, companies, and people making an impact across the ProAV industry. What sets them apart is who makes the call.

Industry professionals nominate the finalists, and rAVe readers select the winners by popular vote. In other words, this award reflects the experience of the integrators, consultants, and end users who work with these products in real-world projects.

For a loudspeaker, that kind of endorsement carries particular weight. Performance on a spec sheet matters, but what earns lasting trust is how a product sounds, installs, and performs once it's in the ceiling and the venue is full.

Solving a challenge other loudspeakers weren't built for

Long aisles and concourses are some of the hardest spaces to cover effectively. Warehouses, grocery stores, shopping malls, sports complexes, hotels, and themed entertainment venues often combine high ceilings, hard reflective surfaces, and long, narrow footprints.

Conventional loudspeakers tend to scatter sound in all directions. In these spaces, that means more reverberation, inconsistent levels from one end of the aisle to the other, and more loudspeakers needed to fill the gaps.

The CCA-80 was engineered specifically for this problem. It's an asymmetric, full-range, three-way triaxial loudspeaker with a coverage pattern shaped to match the space it serves:

• Industry-first asymmetric coverage: A rectangular coverage footprint delivers consistent sound from directly beneath the loudspeaker to the far end of its throw.

• Extended reach: An asymmetric vertical waveguide provides up to a 4:1 throw ratio, so a single position can cover a longer stretch of aisle.

• Clearer communication: By directing energy where listeners are, the CCA-80 minimizes reverberation and improves intelligibility for paging and background music.

• Fewer loudspeakers, lower system cost: Longer, more even coverage reduces the number of loudspeakers a project requires.

• Flexible mounting: The CCA-80D pairs two CCA-80 loudspeakers back to back on a single bracket, reducing mounting positions, amplifier channels, and delay-alignment channels.

The CCA-80 is backed by a five-year warranty and is recommended for use with Voltera amplified loudspeaker controllers, which offer optimization presets for Community loudspeakers.

The result is a solution that helps integrators design more efficient systems and gives venues clearer, more consistent sound for the people walking their aisles.

Innovation across the loudspeaker portfolio

The CCA-80 reflects a broader approach to loudspeaker design at Biamp: start with the acoustic challenges of real spaces, then engineer solutions that solve them.

That approach runs throughout the Biamp loudspeaker portfolio:

• Community performance loudspeakers bring decades of expertise in demanding environments, from stadiums and arenas to houses of worship and transportation hubs. Models such as the Community R.15-3696 deliver clear voice intelligibility and quality music playback in a compact form, indoors and out.

• Desono business audio loudspeakers provide flexible, easy-to-specify options for offices, retail, hospitality, and other commercial spaces.

• Voltera amplified loudspeaker controllers pair power, processing, and loudspeaker optimization to help every system sound its best.

And because Biamp loudspeakers are part of a complete ecosystem that includes audio processing, paging, sound masking, and conferencing, integrators can design systems that work together from the start. With Biamp Workplace, supported devices, including Voltera amplifiers, can also be monitored and managed centrally.

Whether the space is a concourse, a conference room, or a corridor, the goal is the same: clear, natural, intelligible sound that serves the people in it.

Thank you to the AV community

Awards decided by readers are a reminder of who Biamp builds for: the integrators, consultants, technology managers, and end users who rely on our products to perform every day.

We're grateful to rAVe for hosting the Readers' Choice Awards, to everyone who took the time to vote, and to the Biamp engineering and product teams whose work made the CCA-80 possible. Congratulations as well to all of this year's winners and finalists.

We'll keep listening, and we'll keep building loudspeaker solutions that solve the challenges our customers face.

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