Burmester Audiosysteme has never rested on the success of their developments, but has continually put new ideas into practice in order to maintain the highest possible standard for their products. Burmester has earned much praise and numerous awards from audio magazines both in Germany and abroad, among other things for highest musicality and manufacturing quality. Deciding factor for these honours has always been the fact that Burmester sets standards for the whole industry rather than copying others.

To name just a few examples:

• When designing the landmark preamplifier 808 in 1980 Burmester was the first to use plug-in modules that can be adapted extraordinary well to various signal courses.

• Burmester was the first (1983) to design balanced signal paths into home audio gear, up until then only used in professional studio equipment.
• Burmester was the first to offer DC-coupled signal paths from the cartridge to the speakers (1987).
• Burmester developed the first remote volume control using relay circuit (1987).
• Invention of the belt-driven CD transport (1990) and first belt-drive CD player (1991)
• Burmester developed and patented the first regulated power conditioner (948) which actively suppresses distorting DC components in the power lines (1994).
• In 1995 Burmester invented the first loudspeaker system with an easy choice between active and passive crossover.
• Horn-loaded AMT-Loudspeaker technology in the B100 (2007)

• High purity silver interconnecting cables with electronic and magnetic shield
• Self-calibrating phono stages in the 077 Preamp (2007)

Furthermore, Burmester Audiosysteme has been the first audio manufacturer to use chrome front panels and attractive aluminium housing design, a worldwide trend ever since. Apart from designing aspects, chrome is regarded as a material, which retains its value almost unboundedly.