Music and audio innovator Hartley Peavey, founder and CEO of Peavey®
Electronics, was recently honoured as the recipient of the 2015 Lifetime
Achievement Award at the annual AV Awards ceremony in London, England.

Recognized for his pioneering efforts and 50 years of successful innovation and
manufacturing, Peavey appeared in person to accept the award before a crowd of
950 cheering AV industry professionals in the Great Hall of the Grosvenor House
Hotel.

“I was pleasantly surprised to learn that AV Magazine would be giving me the
honour of a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award,'” said Peavey. “It’s hard to realize that I
have been in this industry for over 50 years now. We have always tried to bring
new and fresh approaches to the areas of technology in which we operate. Back in
the mid 1970’s we revolutionized the manufacture of guitars with our introduction of
CNC Machinery for the first time. Later in the early 1990’s we introduced the first
Digital Audio networking and control system in the form of MediaMatrix®, which
revolutionized the way professional sound is distributed and controlled. Over the
years, we have managed to earn more than 180 patents around the world, and I’m
happy to report that our R&D efforts are continuing to lead the way with various
new avenues of technology such as our industry leading guitar amplifier modelling
software ReValver®. As human beings, about the best we can reasonably hope for
is to ‘make a difference’ (hopefully for the better). I like to think that I have been
able to act as a catalyst here at Peavey that has allowed our incredibly talented
team to create numerous industry changing technologies. The good news is that it
CONTINUES after more than 50 years! I’m indeed thankful for the recognition by AV
Magazine, and for the opportunity to continue to ‘make a difference’ in our
industry.”

AV Magazine Editor Clive Couldwell commented, “We only thought it right that AV
Magazine should bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award on a man who we feel has
used traditional values and enviable business acumen to make an indelible mark on
the AV industry. But it’s not so much what Hartley has achieved, in my view, as
how he’s achieved it. Not only has Peavey the company ramped up commercial
success in the face of today’s market pressures under Hartley’s leadership, it has
done so with honesty, earning much respect along the way from those whose
opinions matter. That’s pretty impressive in my book and deserving of not just AV
Magazine’s but also the AV industry’s recognition – long overdue in my opinion.”

Since founding Peavey Electronics in 1965, Hartley Peavey has engineered,
introduced and mass-produced technology innovations that have fundamentally
changed the audio/visual industry. Peavey provided the vision and led his engineers
in creating ground-breaking technologies for solid-state amplification, power factor
correction in audio amplifiers, and digital signal processing and computer control of
audio systems.

“We were delighted to learn that Hartley had been recognized by AV Magazine for
his lifetime of innovation in the audio market,” said Kevin Ivey, General Manager of
Peavey Commercial Audio. “Many of the things we all take for granted now began
as Hartley’s ideas. His drive to innovate and perfect those ideas created the
distributed digital signal processing and the networked audio market segments, both
of which I am pleased to say Peavey continues to lead.’