Sound+Image Awards 2025: the HEADPHONE winners

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Below you will find all our Headphone winners in the 2025 Sound+Image Awards. For other winners, just head to one of these pages:

Sound+Image Awards 2025 overview CLICK HERE

Vinyl winners CLICK HERE

Hi-Fi System winners CLICK HERE

Amplifier winners CLICK HERE

Loudspeaker winners CLICK HERE

Audiovisual winners CLICK HERE

DAC winners CLICK HERE

Home headphones

HOME HEADPHONES UNDER A$1000
Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO ‘X’ Limited Edition A$349
Judges’ Comment: A well-priced upgraded limited edition delivering a delightful personal cloud of music.

HOME HEADPHONES OVER A$1000
Austrian Audio The Composer A$3999
Judges' Comment: The best-sounding and perhaps the most comfortable headphones we have ever worn. Move over Sennheiser’s Orpheuses and HE 1: Austrian Audio’s Composers have taken their crowns.

Wireless headphones

Systems

WIRELESS HEADPHONES OF THE YEAR
Zildjian ALCHEM-E A$749
Judges' Comment: Unusual wireless headphones – they’re loaded with technology developed for the company’s drummer customers, but this translates to plenty of music, along with some interesting variations on noise-cancellation.

True Wireless

TRUE WIRELESS EARBUDS OF THE YEAR UNDER A$500
LG Tone Free T90S A$299
Judges' Comment: Well-priced buds which use Meridian tuning and Dolby Atmos to give LG a rare win over the usual contenders in this true wireless earbud category.

TRUE WIRELESS EARBUDS OF THE YEAR OVER A$500
Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 A$599
Judges' Comment: Reimagined, redesigned and reskilled, Bowers & Wilkins’ new flagship wireless earbuds hit all the spots missed by their predecessors, raising them to the top of the luxury earbud market.

Headphone amp

HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER OF THE YEAR
Yamaha HA-L7A A$6999
Judges' Comment: Far more than just a companion piece to the award-winning YH-5000SE headphones, the HA-L7A stands as a premium amplifier in its own right, elevating any high-end headphone.

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Sound+Image Awards 2025 overview CLICK HERE

Vinyl winners CLICK HERE

Hi-Fi System winners CLICK HERE

Amplifier winners CLICK HERE

Loudspeaker winners CLICK HERE

Audiovisual winners CLICK HERE

DAC winners CLICK HERE

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