EISA Awards 2025-2026: Which Products Won?

The 2025-2026 EISA Awards have just honored the year’s flagship products in hi-fi and home cinema. This 43rd edition reveals the major trends shaping the audiovisual industry.

EISA and its selection process

The Expert Imaging & Sound Association brings together 54 specialist publications from 27 countries. Products launched between October 2024 and May 2025 were eligible this year. The main development: the merger of home-cinema audio and video categories, reflecting their growing convergence.

The key trends of the 2025-2026 edition

A first striking paradox: the renaissance of analog. Turntables, cartridges, and phono preamplifiers dominate the awards. Nagaoka returns after 15 years, Technics leaves DJing behind for pure audiophilia. More than nostalgia, it’s a successful blend of tradition and modern technologies.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere yet remains invisible. Automatic room correction, real-time optimization: AI is becoming a transparent enabler that democratizes high sound quality without technical complexity.

Audio and video are definitively converging. Projectors with built-in sound, multifunction soundbars, partnerships like Sharp–Devialet: systems are becoming modular and scalable. The market is polarizing between modernized reissues (Musical Fidelity B1xi with USB/Bluetooth) and ultra-premium extremes (subwoofer SVS SVS SB17-Ultra R|Evolution).

Value for money is becoming central. “Best Value” categories are multiplying; Triangle, Hisense prove that excellence and accessibility can coexist. At the same time, simplification leads the way: touchscreens, automatic calibration, intuitive interfaces. UST projectors epitomize this performance-without-constraints approach.

These awards sketch an industry where tradition and innovation coexist, where technology serves the experience. Hi-fi has never been more accessible or more diverse.