Piega SA

PIEGA SA
legal form	Corporation
founding	1986
Seat	Horgen , Zurich , Switzerland
management	Alexander Greiner, Manuel Greiner, Thomas Müller
Branch	Consumer electronics
Website	www.piega.ch

Manufactory in Horgen and Wädenswil

Leo Greiner and Kurt Scheuch, 1987

PIEGA SA (PIEGA Switzerland) is a Swiss manufacturer of high-end speakers and accessories. The company's headquarters are in Horgen , Zurich .

history

In 1986 Leo Greiner, Kurt Scheuch and Christian Schmid founded PIEGA SA based in Horgen on Lake Zurich. The name PIEGA is derived from the Italian 'la piega', the fold. The name refers to the ribbon technology used from the beginning, or the folding of the wafer-thin aluminum foil, which has been a central component of development since the company was founded.

The first loudspeakers with Italian names, Arlecchino , Romeo etc., were all handcrafted and initially sold personally by Kurt Scheuch. In 1991 PIEGA SA settled in Horgen at what is now the factory on Lake Zurich. The Wädenswil factory was added later.

The ribbon tweeter has been continuously developed over the past three decades. The ribbon clearly surpasses the performance of a conventional dome tweeter. The membrane consists of a 26 × 42 mm large and extremely thin aluminum foil. The moving mass is only seven milligrams and is around 30 times less than that of the lightest commercially available dome tweeters. It is driven by a highly compressed neodymium magnet as well as magnetic bars that are integrated into the front panel and function like magnetic lenses. They bundle the magnetic field lines, which means that the tweeter achieves a sound pressure level of more than 100 dB.

From 1997 PIEGA began to manufacture its loudspeakers from aluminum. The extruded aluminum ensures good stability and rigidity of the housing. Aluminum is a very stiff material and with the necessary know-how for damping, housings can be produced that do not vibrate and therefore do not develop a sound of their own. PIEGA loudspeakers are mainly made of aluminum to this day.

In 2009 PIEGA was able to combine the coaxial ribbon system in a dipole system for the first time worldwide with the Master One . The Master Line Source followed in 2013, in which the conceptual model of the so-called line source (line source / line array ) came into play. This model allows all frequencies to be emitted as a uniform cylinder sound wave - a principle for which ribbon technology was ideally suited.

Alexander Greiner, Manuel Greiner and Thomas Müller have been running the family business in the second generation since 2018.

From 2019 PIEGA will also be producing wireless speakers of the Premium series.

PIEGA Master Line Source and Kurt Scheuch

Products

PIEGA Switzerland stands for hand-made loudspeakers of the high-end class Made in Switzerland and comprises the following categories:

Stereo speakers
Home theater speakers and systems
Streaming speakers and systems
Accessories, audio cables

Timeline

1986 - PIEGA SA was founded by Leo Greiner, Kurt Scheuch and Christian Schmid in Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland.
1987 - First loudspeaker production by Arlecchino , Romeo , Cappricio , Arabella and Elektra .
1989 - Birth of the LDS series, including a subwoofer, based on LDS (LinearDriveSystem) technology.
1989 - LDR series, 3-way system.
1997 - P series. The 3-way system floorstanding loudspeaker P10 was internationally regarded as a 'reference model'.
2000 - Birth of the first coaxial mid-high frequency ribbon and the C40 loudspeaker.
2001 - Birth of the C-series with its C-shaped design, developed by the Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein .
2009 - Master One - first dipole loudspeaker with coaxial ribbon.
2009 - Introduction of the TMicro series.
2010 - Introduction of the Premium series.
2010 - Introduction of the COAX series.
2013 - Master Line Source - Dipole Loudspeakers.
2016 - New Coax series.
2018 - New premium series, designed by Swiss designer Stephan Hürlemann.
2019 - First wireless speakers with the Premium Wireless series.