PIEGA ACE WIRELESS SERIES LAUNCHED
Swiss loudspeaker manufacturer, PIEGA, has launched the PIEGA Ace Wireless series.
The system offers wide-ranging connectivity both wirelessly via WiSA or Bluetooth and wired via HDMI, optical or coaxial. It is DLNA certified and offers analogue connectivity for legacy audio products. Ace Wireless is Roon Ready and integrates Spotify Connect and HiFi and Google Chromecast. The built-in DSP system features switchable boundary gain compensation.
WISA CERTIFIED
The WiSA Certified PIEGA Ace Wireless series is a range of compact, fully integrated active loudspeakers with wireless sound from stereo up to 7.1 channel. The series incorporates PIEGA’s signature aluminium cabinets and AMT ribbon tweeters alongside TV integration (HDMI eARC, optical, coaxial, WiSA) and built-in streaming clients including Spotify Connect, Roon Ready, Google Chromecast as well as Bluetooth.
AMT TWEETER
Based on PIEGA’s original Ace series’ extruded aluminium cabinets, the industrial design is by leading Swiss architect, Stephan Hürlemann. The new Ace Wireless incorporates upgraded mid and bass MDS drivers, a revised version of PIEGA’s Air Motion Transformer (AMT) tweeter, digital amplification up to 200W per channel, streaming services, and a sophisticated DSP system capable of handling up to 24bit/192kHz High-Res Audio.
PIEGA ACE WIRELESS SERIES
The series comprises the Ace 50 Wireless floorstanding speakers, Ace 30 Wireless bookshelf units, and the Ace Center Wireless centre channel model. All models are available in three colour finishes of sandblasted natural aluminium, anodised satin black or gloss white lacquer with colour coordinated, removable grilles. The Ace 50 and 30 Wireless models are available in TX (transmission) and RX (receiver) versions, a stereo pair being one of each unit. Multichannel systems use all RX designated units and receive the surround sound signal for each channel from a WiSA certified source or WiSA enabled TV/display device.
A set of Ace Wireless loudspeakers for stereo music consists of one Tx and one Rx speaker. The Tx (Transmitter) sends music, in lossless hi-res quality, wirelessly to one or more Rx speakers (Receiver). A wireless multichannel system would consist solely of Rx speakers as a WiSA-certified component (e.g. TV) would act as the signal decoder (e.g. Dolby, DTS etc.) and transmission hub to the Ace Wireless loudspeakers.
PIEGA ACE 30 WIRELESS
The ‘bookshelf’ Ace 30 Wireless is a compact stand mount, 2-way loudspeaker, featuring a 120mm MDS mid/bass driver and an Air Motion Transformer ribbon tweeter. Powered by a 100W amplifier, the Ace 30’s DSP delivers an even frequency response (35Hz-25kHz) across the audio band, despite its small cabinet volume.
TX – £1090.00 each (Aluminium) / £1140.00 each (Black Anodised / White Gloss)
RX – £900.00 each (Aluminium) / £950.00 each (Black Anodised / White Gloss)
PIEGA ACE 50 WIRELESS
The 105cm tall, slim PIEGA Ace 50 Wireless floorstanding loudspeakers are a 3-way design featuring 4 x 120mm MDS bass drivers, 1 x MDS mid-range unit and an Air Motion Transformer (AMT) ribbon tweeter. Powered by a potent 200W amplifier, the Ace 50 Wireless brings large-speaker scale (30Hz-25kHz) and dynamics to the Ace Wireless range, it works as a stereo pair without any traditional source hardware required.
TX – £2090.00 each (Aluminium) / £2140.00 each (Black Anodised / White Gloss)
RX – £1900.00 each (Aluminium) / £1950.00 each (Black Anodised / White Gloss)
PIEGA ACE CENTER WIRELESS
The 2-way centre channel loudspeaker features a 100W amplifier driving 2 x 12cm MDS mid/bass drivers and PIEGA’s AMT ribbon tweeter. Functionality and connectivity are identical to the Ace 50 Wireless RX.
RX – £990 each (Aluminium) / £1040.00 each (Black Anodised / White Gloss)
PIEGA ACE WIRELESS ACCESSORIES
Stand for Ace 30 Wireless – £160 each (Aluminium)
Ball Joint Wall Bracket for Ace 30 Wireless – £100.00 each (Machined Aluminium)
Wall Bracket for Ace Center Wireless – £70.00 each (Aluminium / Black / White)
Centre Stand for Ace Center Wireless – £50.00 each (Black)
PIEGA ACE WIRELESS SERIES AVAILABILITY
Available in the UK from late February. All three Ace series models are available in a choice of three finishes: Sandblasted natural aluminium with grey fabric grille. Anodised black with black metal grille. High gloss white with white metal grille
As different combinations of TX and RX models are required for different configurations, the speakers are available and priced individually.