Piega Premium 701 Gen2 Floorstanding 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 701 Gen2 is a three-way floorstander built around two 140 mm FSD-W woofers, a 140 mm FSD-M bass-midrange driver, and Piega's RM 01-24 ribbon tweeter in an extruded aluminum cabinet 111.5 cm tall and a slim 17 cm wide. The narrow footprint is acoustically intentional — it gives the speaker a wider effective dispersion than wider-baffle alternatives, which helps the soundstage develop laterally rather than collapsing toward the cabinets. The Premium 701 Gen2 lands at the price point where most listeners shopping the entry tier of the high-end speaker market have to choose between famous-brand competence and boutique honesty. The ribbon tweeter, the extruded aluminum cabinet, and the hand-built Swiss construction are what the major brands at this price point reserve for models costing considerably more. For the listener who has done their reading and is no longer impressed by what a logo costs to put on a baffle, this is where the substance argument starts.

Series: Premium Gen2

Configuration: Three-way floorstander with ribbon tweeter

Drivers: 2 × 140 mm FSD-W woofers; 1 × 140 mm FSD-M bass-midrange; 1 × RM 01-24 ribbon tweeter

Frequency Range: 33 Hz – 50 kHz

Sensitivity: 90 dB/W/m

Impedance: 4 ohms

Recommended Amplification: 20 – 200 watts

Dimensions (H × W × D): 43.9" × 6.7" × 9" (111.5 × 17 × 22.8 cm); base stand diameter Ø 11.8" (30 cm)

Weight: 46 lb (20.9 kg) each

Finishes: Silver polished aluminum, Black anodized aluminum, White lacquer

Built by hand in Horgen, Switzerland.