The rAVe team is thrilled to announce our very first Best of LDI awards in 2023! We did get to cover a bit of this show last year, but this was the first time we covered the entire show floor, and we are thrilled to bring that coverage to you now in terms of our “best of show” awards. The entire editorial team contributed to selecting these products, based on the videos we took at the show. Of course, you can see the full library of videos and our full show coverage at ravepubs.com/ldi.

Without further ado, these are the award winners for this year:

• Best Lighting Control Console: MA Lighting — grandMA3
• Best Fog Product: Froggy’s Fog — Scent Lab
• Best Snow Machine: Global Special Effects — Magic Lamp PRO
• Best Truss Product: Unisson — Custom Aluminum Trusses
• Best Designer Tool: CAST — wysiwyg Tool
• Best Architectural Lighting: Apollo — CLP1 Collimated Light Projector
• Best Wash Light: SGM Lighting — P-3 Vision
• Most Unique Lighting Application: LedsUniverse — Helium LED Balloon Lights, Submersible LED Lights
• Best LED Light Show Drone: Uvify — IFO
• Best dvLED Processor: Novastar — MX6000
• Best Media Server: AV Stumpfl — PIXERA
• Best dvLED for Live Events: ROE Visual — Topaz 2.6 Curve
• Best Transparent dvLED for Live Events: Absen — Jupiter Series
• Most Creative new dvLED Product: Unilumin Group — UpadIV Series 
• Best LED Fixture for Live Events: CHAUVET Professional — COLORado PXL Curve 12
• Best All-Weather LED Fixture: Rosco — DMG LION
• Best Live Events Accessory: Theatrixx Technologies — xVision Nomad
• Best Live Events Cabling: Pure Fi — Aurora HDMI 2.1 Fiber
• Best Live Events Winch: Global Stage Techs — GST Acro Winch
• Most Creative New Product: BIRKET Engineering — inThrall Closed Captioning AR Glasses 
• Best Product for DJs: MaestroDMX — “Lighting Design in a Box” Software
• The “Here’s the Future” Award: Brompton Technology — G1 Receiver Card

If you’d like to check out any of our winners and learn more about them, you can check out all their product videos we shot on the show floor via the YouTube playlist below. (Note that you can toggle through the videos by clicking at the top right!)