PIEGA SA
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| Aktiengesellschaft | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Consumer electronics |
| Founded 📆 | 1986 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Horgen, Zürich, Template:Schweiz |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Alexander Greiner, Manuel Greiner, Thomas Müller |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www.piega.ch |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
PIEGA SA (PIEGA Switzerland) is a Swiss manufacturer of High-End loudspeakers and consumer electronics accessories. Headquarters are located in Horgen, Zürich.
History[edit]
In 1986 Leo Greiner, Kurt Scheuch and Christian Schmid founded the company, headquartered in Horgen on Lake Zurich. The name PIEGA is derived from the Italian word 'la piega', "the fold”, which refers to the ribbon tweeter technology used from the very beginning and at that time the practised folding of the ultra-thin aluminium foil, which has been the central element of development within their loudspeakers. [1][2]
In 1991 PIEGA SA moved to Horgen into today’s main factory on Lake Zurich.
In 2009, the coaxial loudspeaker ribbon system was combined into a dipole system with the MasterOne. In 2013 this was followed by the Master Line Source, with which the concept model of the so-called Line Source/Line Array) came into being.[3]This loudspeaker model enables all frequencies to be radiated as a coherent cylinder sound wave – a principle for which the ribbon technology was ideally suited.[4]
The ribbon-tweeter considerably outperforms conventional dome tweeters. The ribbon is driven by a highly compressed neodymium magnet, as well as bar magnets integrated in the front plate which act like magnetic lenses. These focus the magnetic field lines, thus enabling the tweeter to achieve a sound pressure level of more than 100 dB.[5]
From 2019 PIEGA has also been producing wireless loudspeakers.[6]
Products[edit]
PIEGA Switzerland is committed to providing hand crafted high-end loudspeakers, Made in Switzerland and is consisting of the following categories:
- Loudspeaker
- Home cinema-loudspeakers and -systems
- Streaming media and -systems
- Accessories, audio cables
Time line[edit]
- 1986 – 1986 – Founding of PIEGA SA by Leo Greiner, Kurt Scheuch and Christian Schmid in Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 1987 – First loudspeaker production of Arlecchino, Romeo, Cappricio, Arabella and Elektra.
- 1989 – Birth of the LDS (LinearDriveSystem) technology.
- 2000 – First coaxial midrange tweeter ribbon and the C40 loudspeaker.
- 2001 – Introduction of the C-shaped design, developed by Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein.[7]
- 2009 – Master One – World's first dipole loudspeaker with coaxial ribbon.
- 2013 – Master Line Source – dipole loudspeaker.
- 2019 – First wireless loudspeakers with the Premium Wireless series.[8]
Sites[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ ‘’Swiss ribbon speaker manufacturer Article by What Hi-Fi?, Tech Buyer’s Guide, UK, April 2019
- ↑ "Kultivierte Schallwellen" [Cultivated sound waves]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 2012 (in Deutsch).
- ↑ "Schweizer Präzision trifft auf Musik" [Swiss precision meets music.]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 2013 (in Deutsch).
- ↑ ‘'Loudspeaker manufacturer PIEGA. In: The Absolute Sound, US, July 2014.
- ↑ ‘’PIEGA's new high-range ribbon tweeter Article by HiFi Pig Magazine, USA, January 2019
- ↑ ‘’PIEGA goes 'affordable' and wireless Article by What Hi-Fi?, Tech Buyer’s Guide, UK, August 2019
- ↑ "Hannes Wettstein, Wikipedia Deutsch" [Hannes Wettstein, Wikipedia German] (in Deutsch).
- ↑ ‘’PIEGA Premium Wireless 301 Review Youtube video by The Audiophile Man, UK, November 2019
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