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XSCACE has exhibited at the major residential and commercial AV trade shows since 2024, across Europe, North America and India. This page is the running record: which shows, what was shown, and what the trade press made of it.
Trade show presence matters differently from consumer coverage. A review sells one speaker to one household. A stand at CEDIA Expo or ISE is seen by the distributors, integrators and specifiers who decide which brands get written into dozens of projects at once — so the audience is small, and each person in it is worth a great deal more.
| Show | Year | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Smart Expo | 2026 | India |
| INDEX Dubai — GadgEon | 2025 | UAE / Dubai |
| CEDIA Expo | 2025 | North America |
| Smart Expo | 2025 | India |
| Architectural Digest Design Show | 2025 | North America |
| CEDIA Expo | 2024 | North America |
| ISE — Integrated Systems Europe | 2024 | Barcelona, Europe |
The award: Ghost, Best New In-Ceiling Speaker
At CEDIA Expo 2024, the XSCACE Ghost won Best New In-Ceiling Speaker in rAVe’s Best of CEDIA Expo Awards. The distinction worth drawing is who gave it: rAVe [PUBS] is the AV industry trade publication covering the show floor, and the award is voted by its editorial team. It is not a self-nominated or paid-entry honour.
The Ghost was introduced on camera as a slim in-ceiling and in-wall speaker with a built-in subwoofer — the combination that made it unusual on a show floor where in-ceiling models are normally specified alongside a separate sub.
The full account is in XSCACE Ghost Wins Best New In-Ceiling Speaker at CEDIA Expo 2024.
ISE 2024, Barcelona
rAVe framed XSCACE’s category position in a single line at ISE 2024: a specialist in hidden, tiny, or ultra-thin speakers. Two video segments came out of the show. The Bonsai was introduced on camera as a tiny speaker that can fill a room, shown alongside the ultra-slim QuadCane array — the first look European integrators had at either product ahead of wider distribution.
CEDIA Expo 2024
CEDIA Expo is the largest annual gathering of the residential AV and smart home integration industry in North America. rAVe covered the XSCACE stand in three separate segments, one per product: the Bonsai as a slim array speaker with a built-in crossover, the Ghost as a slim in-ceiling and in-wall speaker with a built-in sub, and the QuadCane.
Five independent video segments across two continents in one calendar year is a different signal from a single appearance. One stand can be bought. Five editorial segments means the trade press judged the products newsworthy on their own merits.
Both shows are covered in detail in XSCACE at CEDIA and ISE 2024: Full Trade Show Coverage.
XSCACE has continued to exhibit as distribution has expanded into India, the UAE, the UK and Europe, Thailand and the Philippines:
CEDIA Expo 2025
A second consecutive year on the CEDIA floor, and the first with the full range on one wall. Each product carried its own panel — Banyan, Cedar, Cane, Bonsai, QuadCane and Ghost — with the speaker mounted beside its published specifications, so a visitor could read the numbers without asking. A demonstration table sat in the middle of the stand and subwoofers at floor level.
Smart Expo 2026
The most recent appearance, and a different kind of stand. Built around a walk-in space on stall N25 with a backlit water feature at the entrance, it led on the marine-treated range and carried a dedicated outdoor section — the products that suit the humidity and the poolside and terrace projects that dominate the Indian market.
Architectural Digest Design Show 2025
A design and architecture audience rather than an AV trade one, and the stand was built for it. A dark walk-in space with book-matched marble slat walls, each speaker recessed into the stone so the only thing visible was a slim vertical line — the products presented as part of the wall rather than as equipment placed on it. It is the closest a stand has come to showing the products the way a finished room does.
INDEX Dubai 2025 — shown by GadgEon
Not our stand. GadgEon, our dealer in the region, exhibited XSCACE at INDEX 2025 — the interiors and design exhibition in Dubai — showing the slim arrays in sculptural hand mounts so visitors could judge the scale directly, which is the one thing a photograph of a speaker never conveys. A distributor putting a brand on their own stand, at their own cost, is a better signal than anything a manufacturer can say about its own distribution.
Smart Expo 2025
The first of the two Indian appearances, and the show that preceded the expanded 2026 stand.
Why an architectural speaker brand exhibits at all
Architectural audio is specified, not bought off a shelf. The person choosing the speaker is usually an integrator, an architect or an interior designer working to a drawing, months before anything is installed. They cannot evaluate a 12mm-deep speaker from a photograph — the entire proposition is how little of it there is, and that only lands in the hand.
That is why the same products appear at both AV shows and design shows. CEDIA and ISE reach the integrator who will install it; the Architectural Digest Design Show reaches the architect who decides whether there is a speaker in the specification at all.
If you are specifying a system rather than browsing, the floorplan sound simulation does the coverage prediction, room modes and bill of quantities from a traced plan, and the case studies show finished rooms.