CEDIA has introduced three of its particular person award recipients for 2026, celebrating excellent careers outlined by innovation, management, and long-standing service. Peter Lyngdorf has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA), and Dave Tkachuk and Gordon van Zuiden have been named this yr’s Fellows. These accolades recognise people who’ve helped form each CEDIA and the broader skilled good house trade.
Lifetime Achievement Award
As a distinguished Danish entrepreneur and audiophile, Peter Lyngdorf has left an indelible mark on the world of sound and stays dedicated to exploring new frontiers in audio expertise.
He’s an innovator in high-performance audio who has persistently reshaped expectations of what’s potential in residential sound copy. From founding HiFi Klubben, the profitable retail chain now spanning greater than 100 shops, to establishing influential product manufacturers together with Steinway Lyngdorf, Lyngdorf Audio, and DALI, and co-founding Purifi, his work has helped drive a few of the most important advances in loudspeaker, amplifier, and room-correction expertise.
Among the many most notable is Equibit™ expertise, which transforms the PCM audio knowledge on a CD or another digital supply into the PWM sign of a switching energy amplifier and drives the loudspeakers instantly – a milestone in high-end audio because the world’s first actually digital amplifier. The breakthrough originated with Lars Risbo, whose thought Lyngdorf dropped at life by funding and serving to develop the expertise. Lyngdorf utilized the identical conviction to room correction, main the event of RoomPerfect™ alongside its chief architect and creator, Jan Abildgaard Pedersen – the world’s first 3D room-mapping expertise and one of many largest patent filings in audio historical past, with over 50 claims for brand new expertise. That enduring curiosity in amplification later carried into Purifi, which he co-founded to pursue its patented near-zero-distortion amplifier expertise and transducers.
Lyngdorf’s affect extends past engineering breakthroughs. By means of strategic partnerships, together with the creation of Steinway Lyngdorf in collaboration with Steinway & Sons, he helped elevate residential audio and residential cinema into the luxurious market, demonstrating how cutting-edge expertise and craftsmanship can work collectively to create world-class experiences.
“All through my profession, I’ve believed that expertise ought to all the time serve the listener,” stated Lyngdorf. “Each innovation has been pushed by one easy aim: serving to folks expertise music and movie as naturally and authentically as potential in their very own properties. After we launched our first multichannel programs in North America, we knew the CEDIA neighborhood was the precise associate as a result of distinctive merchandise solely attain their full potential within the arms of remarkable integrators. To obtain this recognition from the professionals who’ve introduced our improvements to life for thus many owners is really one of many nice honours of my profession. I see this recognition not as the tip of a journey, however as encouragement to maintain asking what is feasible.”
Fellows
Dave Tkachuk’s life and profession have all the time centered on expertise, engineering, and music. Since 1981, Tkachuk has been deeply concerned within the design and engineering of residential and industrial AV expertise programs. He spent twenty years as president of Tkachuk Associates and later held senior design and engineering roles with a number of AV integration corporations. Tkachuk can be the founding father of Image Logic.
Drawing on a long time of expertise as an installer, designer, engineer, advisor, teacher, and product developer, Tkachuk has labored to enhance the best way AV initiatives are deliberate, documented, and delivered. He has instructed installers, written articles, taught programs and workshops, and contributed to trade schooling and requirements. He served as co-chairman of the CTA/CEDIA Techniques Documentation Work Group for the event of the AV Architectural Drawing Symbols Normal, ANSI J-STD-710, and has labored with CEDIA committees on expertise and certification. He was named CEDIA’s 2011 Volunteer of the Yr.
“Changing into a CEDIA Fellow is a rare honour, and I’m each grateful and humbled by this recognition,” stated Tkachuk. “For the previous 25 years, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside many excellent, hardworking, and devoted professionals who share a dedication to excellence, schooling, and offering the instruments our integration trade must positively impression the lives of households world wide.”
Gordon van Zuiden was the Founder and President of cyberManor, one of many nation’s first customized digital integrators to give attention to IP network-based applied sciences for the house. Van Zuiden was the previous Chairman of the CEDIA Expertise Council and served on CEDIA’s Board of Administrators for six years. He developed the licensed CEDIA ESD course on Digital House Digital Options and has consulted on the event of COMPTIA’s HTI+ Community Certification program. For over 20 years, he has been a month-to-month columnist on house networking matters for Residential Techniques. van Zuiden has taught programs or been a panellist on digital house leisure and networking options at nationwide commerce exhibits, together with CES, CEDIA Expo, EHExpo, CE Professional Summit, NKBA|KBIS, IEEE, and internationally in digital house expos in Russia, the Netherlands, and Mexico over the past decade. He has additionally been a advisor to trade producers and integrators throughout america, educating full-day seminars on the purposes and advantages of networked house applied sciences.
“I’m honoured and humbled to obtain the 2026 CEDIA Fellow Award,” stated van Zuiden. “All through my profession in house integration, CEDIA’s volunteers and workers have been greater than colleagues — they’ve been my prolonged skilled household. After I have a look at the exceptional people who’ve been named CEDIA Fellows through the years, I’m deeply grateful and proud to have my identify added to that distinguished listing.”
All three honourees might be recognised on the CEDIA Sensible House Awards international ceremonies.
For Extra Info: cedia.org/awards
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