Engineered beyond expectations

Arthur Felix

Founder / Owner / CEO

🇫🇷 Born in 1972

Arthur’s passion for sound was born at the age of 14, when he built his first loudspeakers with his father in their garage for a birthday party where he was the DJ.

After earning a Civil Engineering degree with a strong focus on acoustics at the Institut Universitaire Technologique de Lyon 1, he spent seven years as a front-of-house engineer for one of Lyon’s leading rental companies, mixing for international stars including Tina Turner and Johnny Hallyday.

In 1999 he founded AG Audio Pro, specialising in custom installation speakers for clubs, theatres, and auditoriums.

A 2006 trip to China proved pivotal: he partnered with an OEM amplifier manufacturer in Guangzhou, leading to the successful launch of the AUDIOCENTER brand at the 2008 Beijing PALM Show.

In 2011 Arthur opened his own R&D centre and factory in Guangzhou’s Panyu district and renamed the company CELTO Acoustique. Initially focused on OEM and ODM solutions for established brands, he made the defining decision in 2013 to develop CELTO Acoustique as an independent premium brand. “The best move I have ever made,” Arthur says.

Over the past 12 years the brand has grown more than 2000% and is now distributed in over 70 countries, with the factory producing thousands of professional loudspeakers every month.

Nicolas Lucas

Technical Director & European Manager

🇧🇪 Born in 1984

Nicolas Lucas is a highly respected live sound engineer with more than 20 years of experience, having mixed over 4,000 bands and artists worldwide. A passionate educator, he also teaches Public Address systems at the SAE Institute.His journey began at the age of 14 as a DJ, but he soon discovered his true calling was mixing instruments rather than songs. From the age of 16 he worked in rental companies, steadily rising to become a recognised front-of-house engineer. At 20, after earning a diploma in sound engineering from the SAE Institute, he founded his own company.

Nicolas met Arthur on a French internet forum and the two quickly became friends and business partners in the AG Audio Pro adventure — the best Franco-Belgian alliance since the invention of the French fry (which, as every true Belgian knows, is actually Belgian). This marked the very beginning of what would become CELTO Acoustique.

From the brand’s earliest days, Nicolas has served as Technical Director, playing a pivotal role in hardware design and ensuring products deliver real-world usability for rental companies and live sound professionals.

Today, as Director and European Manager of CELTO Acoustique, he is also a partner in Weplay SPRL, a leading innovative AV rental company based in Belgium. This hands-on rental experience gives him unique insight into market needs, which he applies daily to make CELTO products meet — and exceed — the expectations of live sound engineers in the field.

Rodger Rapsey

Marketing Director

🇳🇿 Born in 1958

Rodger has been in the sound industry for over 30 years. He was a founding director of The PA People NZ Ltd and then moved to Australia in 1992 to become a director of The PA People Pty Ltd in Sydney. In his position as Sales Director he designed, engineered and project managed a substantial number of installations involving churches, schools, lecture theatres, stadiums, in fact wherever sound reinforcement requirements were necessary.

In 2002 he moved to the Gold Coast to take up the position of General Manager of BOSE Professional Products for the Globe where his area of responsibility included product research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing. During this time Rodger was instrumental in the development of a new and innovative range of products. His experience overseas has given him a wide understanding of the pro audio field and allowed him to develop a network of strong industry-related relationships.

In 2008 Rodger established pro and commercial audio distribution business, Sound Choice Pro Audio in Australia and expanded to New Zealand and Singapore.

Rodger prides himself on the fact that he has his ear to the ground and knows what the current market in this region is asking for in regard to product and has therefore specifically chosen quality products that will meet the markets requirements.