A short history
After studying electrical engineering Daniel Weiss joined the Willi Studer (Studer - Revox) company in Switzerland. At Studer he worked in the digital audio lab for five years. His work included the design of a sampling frequency converter and the digital signal processing electronics for digital audio recorders.

In 1985 Mr. Weiss founded the company Weiss Engineering. From the very beginning the company concentrated on the design and manufacture of digital audio equipment for mastering studios. The modular "102 Series" system was the first product. Even today this system is still up to date (24 bit / 96kHz) and is still sold. Hundreds of Mastering Studios around the world use it every day.

Early in the nineties the "Gambit Series" was launched. It consists of stand-alone units like Equalizer, Dynamics Processor, A/D converter, D/A converter, Sampling Frequency Converter, Dithering etc.

The Gambit Series took ergonomics and sonic quality to new heights. 40 bit floating point processors and sampling rates up to 96kHz are employed.

Our mission
The wealth of experience we gained during all those years of working together with the "Golden Ears" Mastering Engineers, we now also apply to the design of outstanding Hi-Fi products. Our philosophy is to create long lasting, high quality products. High quality in each and every facet, be it sonics, ergonomics, economics and ecologics, or cosmetics.

Currently the range of our High-End Hi-Fi products consists of the MEDEA digital to analog converter, the JASON CD Transport, the DAC202 Firewire D/A Converter, the INT202 / INT203 Firewire Interfaces, the ATT203 Passive Attenuato, the MAN202 Network Player.

The team at Weiss Engineering (chronological):

Daniel Weiss, President, graduated in 1979 with a BSEE from the HTL Rapperswil. Joined the Studer Revox company in 1979 as an Electronics Engineer. There he worked on analog anti-aliasing filters, test signal generators, sampling frequency converters and digital audio processing for a two channel DASH recorder. He left Studer in 1984 to start the Weiss Engineering company. In the early days of Weiss Engineering, Daniel Weiss had to do all himself, e.g. hardware design, PCB layout, host and DSP software design, manufacturing, testing etc. Today he is responsible for the hardware design (analog and digital) and all the marketing, PR, sales and administrative aspects of running a company.

Jakob Schiesser, Electronics Technician. Joined Weiss Engineering in November 1987. He is responsible for the mechanical and ergonomical engineering of our equipment (inside and outside), for the largest part of the host software (Rockwell 6501, Motorola 68HC16 , Motorola Coldfire processors), and for the PCB layouts. Jakob is also involved in various organizational activities, e.g. he wrote a parts inventory management program. He is also our Windows Server and network administrator.

Miriam Joos, electronics manufacturing coworker. Miriam takes care of our cable assembly and various other soldering duties.

Marcel Vogt, Electronics Technician. Joined Weiss Engineering in September 1996 as an electronics technician after having spent several years with the renowned FM company, a Swiss amplifier manufacturer. He is responsible for manufacturing management, quality control, final inspection of all equipment leaving the factory and repair service.

Uli Franke, Electronics Engineer, graduated in 2004 from the ETH in Zurich with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering. Uli joined Weiss Engineering in July 2004 and is working in controller software, DSP, PC, MAC and iPad software development.

Rolf Anderegg, Electronics Engineer, graduated in 2004 from the ETH in Zurich with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering. Rolf joined Weiss Engineering in August 2007 and is working in DSP software and PC software development.

Barbara Elsener, Secretary. Barbara joined Weiss Engineering in March 2008 and is doing all shipping duties and some of the administrative work.

Samuel Groner, Electronics Engineer, graduated in 2006 from the ETH in Zurich with an MS degree in computer science and 2010 from the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts) with an MA degree in recording engineering. Samuel joined Weiss Engineering in March 2006 and mainly contributes to analogue hardware design. Besides his engagement at Weiss Engineering he also freelances as classical recording producer/recording engineer.

Andrea Weiss, Sales Manager. Andrea joined Weiss Engineering in January 2010 and takes care of sales, exhibitions and other PR duties. Andrea is a cabinet maker by profession and is currently attending a part time high school which allows him to start studying later on.