Sound Devices A20-HH Handheld Microphone Wins Future's Best of Show Award

Sound Devices A20-HH wireless handheld microphone is recipient of Future's Best of Show Award, presented at the 2025 NAB Show by Sound and Video Contractor. The awards recognize innovative product designs within the pro audio and broadcast industry and are judged by a panel of top engineers and industry experts. A20-HH is the newest addition to Sound Devices' innovative Astral ecosystem of wireless devices and is already in high-demand with some of the top performers and RF teams in the world, the company says. For more information about A20-HH and the Astral family, please click here.

"The Astral series has been designed from the onset to rise to the high standard required in today's challenging RF environments," says Sound Devices CEO Matt Anderson. "A20-HH is the result of years of fruitful collaboration between our engineers and R&D team alongside some of the industry's brightest minds in wireless. We're incredibly proud to be honored once again by Future's panel of industry experts and humbly accept this 'Best of Show' award."

Sound Devices' Astral family of wireless devices is billed as a versatile wireless ecosystem designed for increased RF stability, sound quality, and ease of use. Astral wireless receivers such as A20-SuperNexus, A20-Nexus, and A20-Nexus Go utilize Sound Devices' proprietary SpectraBrand Technology for a region-free global tuning range of 169-1525MHz making them operable worldwide. Well-suited for a wide range of live events use, Astral wireless receivers offer high channel counts in extremely small packages.

Alongside the Astral family wireless receivers, the Astral family also includes the new A20-HH handheld microphone, the A20-Opto expansion box, which adds native Optocore audio I/O to the A20-SuperNexus receiver; the A20-Outpost-NL box, intended for remote-mounting NexLink antennae via Ethernet; the A20-TX digital wireless body pack transmitter with a multipurpose input, flexible powering, and sunlight-readable e-Paper display; the A20-Mini ultra-compact digital wireless body pack transmitter with optional A20-BatteryDoubler for twice the battery runtime; and A20-RX two-channel slot-in portable true-diversity wireless receiver.