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The Absolute Sounds 2025 Product of the Year Awards • Welcome to The Absolute Sound‘s 2025 Product of the Year Awards, the most exclusive and prestigious of our honors. Here we celebrate the very best components we've heard in the previous year. In many categories we've chosen two winners: one that represents the greatest value for the dollar and another that represents the best we've reviewed re- gardless of price. We've also selected a Budget Component of the Year to recognize the one product we believe offers the biggest bang for the buck. The Special Merit category celebrates a component that is exceptional even within this esteemed group of products. Finally, our Overall Product of the Year honors the two components that stand above all the others as the most impressive achievements of the past 12 months.
DS Audio Grand Master Extreme Optical Phono Cartridge • A Musical Tour de Force
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Yukiseimitsu Audio AP-01 Analog Record Player • Rules Are For Fules!
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United Home Audio Ultima Apollo Tape Deck • More Than A Refresh
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Audiovector QR 3 SE Loudspeaker • Simply Irresistible
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Hegel Music Systems P30A Preamplifier and H30A Power Amplifier • Reference Quality for Less
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SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacle Loudspeaker • Buy One, Get One Free
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Soulution 3 Series Electronics: 350 Phonostage, 326 Preamplifier, and 312 Stereo Amplifier • The More “Affordable” Soulutions
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Coastal Source Razor RZ310 Outdoor Loudspeaker • High-End Audio Goes Alfresco
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Shunyata Research Theta Cables • Category Busting
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Nordost QBase Reference AC Distribution Unit • The Hippocratic Oath
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CRYSTAL CLEAR • Aesthetix Pallene Hybrid Preamplifier and Dione Hybrid Power Amplifier
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2024 Top Ten Lists
TOP TEN
By the Numbers • Classic-Rock Box Sets, (Really) Big & (Sort of) Small
When the Dead Came Alive • Concert Recording Captures the Band in Fine Form
ROCK ETC
JAZZ
CLASSICAL
Q&A • Antonio Meze Meze Audio