Before you write in, our Headphones of the Year Award is open to in-ear, on-ear and over-ear designs (rather than just cans) because we want to make you aware of the very best headphone product released in 2024. And based on another full year of testing, I want you to know right from the off that choosing the Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 as that product was one of the easiest decisions we've made all year.
This year, the hands-down TechRadar Choice Awards 2024 audio winner revealed itself rather late in the game, at the end of August to be precise. This was cutting it pretty fine for consideration in the 2024 awards proceedings, but I doubt B&W was particularly worried about that; it's abundantly clear to me that this time around, the UK audio specialist wanted to get its earbuds done right, rather than to get them done quickly – and that is probably why they're so, so good.
