In this article we officially open the polls and voting for the 2025 Reader voted Best Gear awards.
As announced in last year’s closing article, it’s now time to set up and open the new polls so you can all start voting for your favorite/best gear of 2025! Of course I will be giving you regular status updates during the year, as usual.
For those of you who missed the 2024 winners, the end results of the 2024 votes can be found here:
If you feel last year’s list is missing a contender, discovered something excellent and new or feel another unit should have won, then this is the opportunity to change things. So start voting!
Everyone can add new gear to the lists. Just make sure to check the full list before adding the same unit twice (or more). Like last year we will manually remove fraudulous votes from the polls, so keep it honest please.
Now let’s get started with the new polls!
This year we have an extra/new category compared to last year, and that poll is all about Speakers!
Here are all the links to the 2025 polls:
- Headphones
- Universal IEMs
- Custom IEMs
- TWS IEMs
- Portable Players/DAPs
- DAC/AMP Combos – Including Dongles
- Amplifiers (only) – Tube or Solid State
- DAC (only)
- Speakers
- Streamers
- Cables & Accessories
Who will take away the gold medal this year? Will there be any surprises? It all depends on you, so start voting! Don’t forget to just vote “Other”, make sure to enter a new model to add it to the list.
May the best (or most popular?) gear win!
Click here or above to enter your VOTE for each category:
Don’t forget to just vote “Other”, make sure to enter a new model to add it to the list. When you have voted, you after a couple of seconds will be returned to this article so you can vote for the other categories. It you want to see the intermediate results of the votes, you just have go back to the categories’ voting page again, where the vote percentages will be shown. Votes are limited to 1 a person!





GordM
LS50 Metas for office desktop system. Excellent nearfield/ midfield speaker system.