September 2025

Best Of 2025 Blue Note Equipment Awards
Celebrating the best high fidelity / high-end audiophile gear of 2025!
High-End Audio Awards By Enjoy the Music.com

  Enjoy the Music.com's Best Of 2025 Blue Note Awards celebrates the many great achievements by audiophile manufacturers within the high-end audio and Hi-Res Audio industry. Our 2025 Blue Note Awards is a three decade culmination of reviewing luxurious high-end audio equipment and carefully choosing what products have earned special recognition for our annual awards. Our Best Of 2025 Blue Note Award celebrates the finest products we have reviewed during the previous 12 months.

Recipients have been carefully chosen after much debate and consideration by our staff of reviewers. With each passing year our industry has experienced great advancements in technology including analog circuitry, vinyl LP and analog playback, digital-to-analog converters (DACs), loudspeaker design, personal media players, and more.

While there are many great pieces of premium high fidelity audio equipment now available within the marketplace, Enjoy the Music.com's Best Of 2025 Blue Note Awards is compiled from products we have reviewed within the past 12 months that have earned extra special attention.

From October 2024 through September 2025 our staff chose only 14 products that have earned our prestigious Blue Note Award. This year we've become exceptionally particular as in 2024 we chose 20 (in 2023 only 16) products that earned our prestigious Blue Note Award. Thus, choosing only 14 products during 2025, instead of a multi-year lengthy list, is normal for us. Please see our previous Blue Note Awards; we have links to them at the bottom of this page.

Only The Very Best
Let it be said here and now we make no apologies that our staff chose only 20 products to receive our special Blue Note Award. With so many products spanning a wide array of categories reviewed from October 2023 through September 2024, this does not mean that everyone gets an award. This is not to say that other products do not merit your attention, it is simply that only the very best of the bunch should stand out and be recognized clearly and concisely.

Furthermore, Enjoy the Music.com does not carry over products from our Best Of 2024 Blue Note Awards, Best Of 2023 Blue Note Awards, Best Of 2022 Blue Note Awards (or any other awards for that matter). 

Full Transparency: Products are chosen by our reviewers. There is no pay-to-play / pay-for-entry or added costs to license our Blue Note Award 2025 logo as is the norm with other industry awards. Companies can not buy an entry into our awards. 

Simply Stated: Enjoy the Music.com's Best Of 2025 Blue Note Awards are truly earned. 

Let us all celebrate a glorious life filled with musical bliss, and carefully chosen award winners! As always, in the end what really matters is that you... enjoy the music!

Enjoy the Music,

Steven R. Rochlin

See Enjoy the Music.com's Special
Best Of 2025 Blue Note Awards Issue!