Crafted 31 years ago, SPARS' mission statement continues to emphasize the core values guiding our commitment to sharing practical, "hands-on" business information about facility ownership, management and operations, as well as all aspects of the recording process. 

The SPARS community includes audio recording and mastering facilities, manufacturers, engineers, producers and multimedia specialists — everyone from single-operator studios to large multi-room facilities.  If your business involves music recording, mastering, video, film, industrial or corporate media, advertising, computers, interactive games, forensic audio, studio design, manufacturing, internet audio, education or any allied industry, your colleagues are members of SPARS.  SPARS' work is carried on by sister organizations in England by the APRS and in Japan by the JAPRS. 

Ultimately, to be a part of SPARS means you are part of a collective network of professionals dedicated to improving the business environment for audio production services.  The single most valuable benefit to membership is this connection —  and it is the one which is not definable in dollars.   Yes, we offer a constantly expanding array of hard-dollar benefits that can be tallied on a calculator, but to join for those benefits is to miss the bigger picture.  The best way to take advantage of SPARS is to be an active participant in the organization and help shape the agenda.  The question is not, "What can SPARS do for me?" but rather "What can we do together?"