What Hi-Fi? Awards 2014 - all the winners revealed!

See all the What Hi-Fi? Awards 2014 winners

The What Hi-Fi? Awards are official. Last night's ceremony saw us reveal 99 winners in 24 product categories, highlighting the best products you can buy across hi-fi, home cinema, portable audio, streaming and more.

Sony was the big winner, winning a total of nine Awards across multiple categories including Product of the Year in the home cinema amplifiers category and the best in-ear headphones Award.

Samsung also featured heavily in the winners taking away three Awards for its 48in, 55in and 65in televisions, including the first What Hi-Fi? Awards for 4K TVs.

Bluesound scooped the inaugural Product of the Year in the multi-room systems category, while Naim took top honours in the hugely competitive wireless speakers section.

In more traditional territory, the B&W 685 S2 speakers took home our stereo speaker Product of the Year Award, while Q Acoustics and Wharfedale, amongst others, also took home 2014 Awards in the speakers section.

Spotify was confirmed as our favourite streaming service, while Sky+HD is once again, in our opinion, the best subscription service, taking the Product of the Year in the set-top boxes category.

The iPhone 6 and Sony Xperia Z3 were the smartphone winners, while Apple and Google shared the Best Buys for tablets.

If you didn't follow it all live on the What Hi-Fi? Twitter account then you can search Twitter using the #WhatHiFiAwards hashtag to see some behind-the-scenes pictures from the Awards ceremony. If you'd rather see the full glory in our special Awards issue of the magazine, then it's in shops from today or you can buy a copy online right now.

See all the What Hi-Fi? 2014 award-winners on our dedicated Awards microsite...

From the archive:

What Hi-Fi? Awards: The tech products that got left behind

The best stereo speakers of the 21st century

A look back at the first What Hi-Fi? Awards, 1983

The award-winning technology that got left behind

A brief history of the portable music player

What Hi-Fi? Awards through the years

Joe Cox
Content Director

Joe is the Content Director for What Hi-Fi? and Future’s Product Testing, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for almost 20 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff and The Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).

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