With an aesthetic shaped by Swiss designer Stephan Hürlemann and acoustics developed at Piega’s Lake Zurich based factory, Piega’s new Ace series loudspeakers represent the most affordable aluminum cabinet Piega loudspeaker to date. Drawing on technology and acoustic development trickled down from the Master, Coax and Premium models, the Ace builds on the success of, and replaces, the now outgoing TMicro series.

The Ace series consists of a slim, 1m-tall floorstanding loudspeaker (the Ace 50), a compact satellite loudspeaker (the Ace 30), and a landscape format Ace Center for home cinema systems. The cabinets are all just 14cm wide and feature a 16cm deep oval aluminum profile, with no visible seams, angles or fixings. The speakers are designed to appeal to those who want a minimalist look – or those who don’t want their sound system to occupy their entire lounge space. 

The braced aluminum cabinets have, says Piega, been specially developed for this trio of loudspeakers and optimised for the 120mm MDS mid/bass drivers common to all three models. Also common to all three models is Piega’s tried and tested AMT-1 Air Motion Transformer. This extremely light, large surface area ribbon tweeter is driven by a neodymium motor assembly, with the ultimate aim of a detailed and fluid upper frequency response.

To briefly shine a light on each model, the ‘bookshelf’ design Ace 30 is the smallest loudspeaker in the Piega portfolio – its baffle measures the same size as an A5 sheet of paper. Although compact in size, the Ace 30 boasts a surprisingly powerful sound thanks to a single 120mm MDS woofer and AMT-1 tweeter in the small volume enclosure. Piega says the Ace 30 is suitable for detailed musical listening in smaller rooms, with or without a subwoofer, or for more discreet sound in larger area living rooms.

Stepping up scale and performance, the Ace 50 has the same profile width as its smaller sibling yet extends the cabinet vertically, with a neat round plinth, to incorporate three 120mm MDS woofers and the AMT-1 tweeter. This three-way design uses two of the MDS drivers for low frequencies, with a single MDS driver dedicated to producing mid-range frequencies. Piega says the Ace 50 is suitable for medium to larger living spaces.

The new Ace series can be used as a multi-channel home theatre system with the landscape format Ace Center. Its two 120mm MDS woofers, AMT-1 Tweeter and dedicated crossover promise to deliver exceptional speech during TV and feature films, and thanks to its compact size, the Ace Center can easily be placed under or on a shelf around the TV screen. A wall mounting bracket is available for the Ace Center as an optional extra.

All three Ace Series models are available in a choice of three finishes: natural aluminium with grey fabric grille, anodised black with black grille and high-gloss white with white grille.

The Piega Ace Series will be available in the UK from late February. The Ace 50 floorstander model is priced at £1980 per pair, the smaller Ace 30 will cost £980 per pair and the Ace Center channel speaker is priced at £590.

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