Piega Premium 501 Wireless Gen2 Active Loudspeakers

Piega is a Swiss loudspeaker maker that has spent four decades doing one thing better than almost anyone else: building ribbon transducers and mating them to extruded aluminum cabinets that disappear from the music. The company was founded in 1986 on Lake Zurich, and every speaker that wears the Piega badge — from the entry models to the limited-edition flagships — is still assembled by hand in Horgen, Switzerland. The ribbon-tweeter architecture that defines the brand is not borrowed technology. Piega develops and manufactures its own ribbon drivers in-house, including the coaxial ribbon module that places the midrange and treble at a single physical point and resolves the time-alignment problem that conventional two-way and three-way crossovers can only approximate. The cabinets are pulled from a single piece of extruded aircraft-grade aluminum, internally damped with Piega's Tension Improve Module to remove panel resonance before it can color the sound. The result is a presentation that listeners describe in the same vocabulary year after year: fast, clean, dimensionally precise, and free of the boxy signature that almost every traditional cabinet imposes on the music.

The Premium 501 Wireless Gen2 is a fully active three-way floorstander — a complete loudspeaker, amplifier, DAC, and wireless receiver system in a single cabinet. Piega's engineers specify and integrate the amplification for each drive unit, with a separate amplifier branch matched to each driver and an internal DSP crossover that takes the place of the passive network on a conventional speaker. The result is system-level coherence that is structurally impossible on a passive speaker connected to a third-party amplifier of unknown character. The driver complement is a 26 × 42 mm Linear Drive Ribbon tweeter, a 120 mm MDS midrange driver, and four 120 mm bass drivers, all working together inside Piega's extruded aluminum cabinet. The Wireless Gen2 platform supports lossless 24-bit/96-kHz transmission from the included hub, plus direct digital and analog inputs for owners who want to bypass the wireless link. For the listener who values Piega's acoustic identity but wants a system that does not require an entire equipment rack, the Premium 501 Wireless Gen2 is the most resolved expression of that argument the company makes.

Series: Premium Wireless Gen2

Configuration: Three-way active floorstander with integrated amplification, DSP crossover, and wireless receiver

Drivers: 4 × 120 mm bass drivers; 1 × 120 mm MDS midrange; 1 × LDR Linear Drive Ribbon tweeter

Frequency Range: 30 Hz – 35 kHz

Internal Amplification: 180 W total, separate amplifier branches per driver

Wireless: Lossless 24-bit/96 kHz transmission from Piega Connect hub (included)

Dimensions (H × W × D): 39.8" × 6.3" × 8.3" (101 × 16 × 21 cm)

Weight: 48.5 lb (22 kg) each

Finishes: Black, White

Built by hand in Horgen, Switzerland.