What to Buy the Audiophile Who Has Everything? 2024 Audio Gift Guide

Trying to buy someone a gift that matches up with their hobby can be a tough task – especially when it’s an expensive hobby like audio. Whether you're looking to spend thousands on a loved, or just get a Secret Santa gift on a budget, there’s a pretty good range of gifts that the audiophile in your life will love.

Cables, Cases, and Accessories

The old standard for any hobby gift is not worrying about the big stuff, but instead buying the basic accessories that everyone needs. With headphones and IEMs, that could be eartips, adapters, cables, or even carrying cases.

For IEM users, eartips can have a huge impact on the sound and comfort, but can range from costing under $1 per pair to costing nearly $20 a pair. Some of our most popular eartips are the SpinFit Omni, Eletech Baroque, and Symbio W tips. Eletech Baroque is notable for providing versions for standard IEMs as well as for AirPods Pro and other TWS earphones. SpinFit also offers a model specific to AirPods.

Anyone with a collection of headphones or IEMs will frequently be in need of cables, adapters and other connectors to use with their headphones. For IEMs, the Kinera Ace cable series offers modular connections for various devices and a variety of cable options for different IEMs. Dekoni also recently released their Ensemble Cable line, which allows you to buy modular options for different headphones or amps, to connect all your devices easily. The ddHifi M120B is another great option that lets you connect your high end IEMs directly to your phone with the need for additional cables, adapters, or dongles.

Travel cases are a great option as well. For headphones, the Dekoni Savior is a great option either for storage or travel. The ddHifi CZ300 is a great option for carrying a lot of cables, accessories, and adapters, and it looks pretty stylish too. For IEM users, the ddHifi C100 is a good basic option, but for something higher class you might to check out the Eletech Cavalry Brown Leather case combines luxurious materials and functional style.

The Hottest IEMs and Headphones

While there’s always a lot of attention at the flagship, multi-kilobuck level for headphones and IEMs, there are a lot of great options at lower prices that any headphone enthusiast can appreciate. We covered options like the DITA Project M, Kinera Celest, and FiiO FT1 in our other gift guide, but there are other great options like the DUNU Titan S2 and Moondrop May that both look great and provide excellent audio performance.

Limited Edition IEMs are another big opportunity for a gift. Campfire Audio’s current batch of limited edition “Multiverse” versions of their IEMs are an opportunity to get a one-of-a-kind gift for an IEM enthusiast, with options ranging from the $199 Axion or $349 Taurus, to the $1999 Multiverse III Solaris. Other items like the Moondrop Beautiful World or Vision Ears EXT MK2 Gold offer larger runs of limited edition products that can make for an incredible gift.

Ultimate Gifts

If you’re shopping for the ultimate ultimate audiophile gift, and there’s no limit what you’re willing to spend, there are two combos this year that stand apart from all others.

For the best portable audio option out there, the combination of the Astell&Kern SP3000T and Astell&Kern x Empire Ears Novus is pretty much the most premium audio gift you could imagine. Novus is a limited edition IEM collaboration between Premium Korean Audio brand Astell&Kern and US-based Audiophile and Pro Audio IEM creator Empire Ears that combines incredible technology, technical performance, and musicality. SP3000T is the perfect match for Novus featuring premium audio components inside, and incredible craftsmanship outside. With its hybrid tube/solid state amplification, you can dial in your perfect sound.

For the ultimate desktop setup, HIFIMAN Susvara Unveiled combined with the Cayin Soul 170HA is probably just about as good as a headphone experience can get. The Susvara Unveiled takes HIFIMAN’s flagship headphone driver technology and removes  all impediments to the sound flowing freely to create a really impressive sense of space from the headphones. Meanwhile Cayin Soul is 170HA is the perfect pairing for any flagship headphones that delivers all the details in the music while enhancing the sense of depth and body to the sound.