We recently did a brand new tier list for 2025—ranking as many audiophile over-ear headphones as we could remember—which you can check out
here!
This is the thread for discussing The Headphone Show’s tier list, as well as for users to share their own tier lists (using the Tiermaker site we made here).
While we decided to do a Tiermaker tier list for the video because it made things easiest for the viewer to understand, behind the scenes we actually did our own full Ranking Lists! They can be found on Headphones.com at the links below.
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Thanks for doing this enormous job (I watched chapters in the video I was interested in, bit not all of it).
As a recent purchaser of the HEDD D-1, I noted happily that two of the reviewers (Golden and Resolve) each found only one headphone that they rated higher (and their #1 choices differed). Listeners ratings were often quite divergent from the other two reviewers. Interrater reliability would be low here, which doesn't invalidate the ratings but makes them questionable as a guidance for prospective buyers.
How did two of the reviewers arrive at ratings including one or two decimal points? I mean, the ratings aren't intended to be an exact science, so such precise numbering seems puzzling to me.