SOULNOTE
This brand was checked/updated on 11-01-2024 by F.
Soulnote is a high-end home audio brand by CSR, Inc. headquartered in Kanagawa, Japan. CSR was founded in 2004 by the former members of Marantz Japan. It has around 50 employees now. Hideki Kato, the Chief Sound Manager since 2016, has his long professional career since late eighties, having deeply involved in the development of the legendary A-10 amplifiers by NEC as well as the LHH series by Philips, but having kept himself staying behind the scene. Soulnote believes dynamic performance keeping accuracy of the original waveform on the time axis as the most important for music playback, which is, however, still unmeasurable by any of the conventional methods. At Soulnote, only listening dominates the determination and improvement of circuit, selection of parts and mechanical construction. This approach is a kind of antithesis against the supremacy of static performance.