Zeiler Audio
Website:https://www.zeiler.audio/
Est. year: 2000
Zeiler Audio is a Swiss maker of high-efficiency horn-coaxial loudspeakers and tube electronics, founded in 2018 by engineer Ralf Zeiler and based in Kilchberg on Lake Zurich. It is a compact operation built around a single complete system - preamplifier, power amplifier, loudspeakers, step-up transformers and cables - designed by one person who spent more than four decades building amplifiers and speakers as a hobby before turning it into a business.
Range & what it's known for
The loudspeaker side has two models. The SP-01 is presented as a modern homage to the Tannoy and Altec studio monitors of the 1960s and 70s, while the SP-02 puts the same professional 15-inch neodymium coaxial driver into a smaller bass-reflex cabinet with a downward-firing port. Both reach 97 dB per watt, never dip below 8 ohms and use a compression driver on an 80 x 60 degree constant-directivity waveguide. Electronics are the PR-01 preamplifier and the PA-01, a 10-watt power amplifier running KT150 tubes in triode mode, plus MC Series step-up transformers built with Lundahl parts, IC Series interconnects and the SC-01 speaker cable.
Who owns it and where it's made
Zeiler Audio GmbH belongs to Ralf Zeiler himself, who trained as an engineer and worked in IT. Products carry a Made in Switzerland label. Amplifier enclosures are machined from solid aluminium blocks, bead-blasted and anodised, electronic parts are hand-selected, channel-matched and hand-soldered with cryogenically treated wire, and electro-mechanical components are made to Zeiler's specifications by suppliers in Europe, Asia and the US. The visual design comes from FOND Design in Zurich.
The lineup in this catalog
Floorstanding loudspeakers, represented by the SP-02 (40 Hz to 20 kHz, 24 kg per unit). Swiss pricing runs from CHF 19,460 in matte satin to CHF 23,350 in piano gloss, with any NCS colour on request.
Who it's for
The SP-02 targets owners of low-power tube amplifiers who have a smaller room but want a large coaxial driver, and its 8-ohm floor makes it undemanding for a few watts. Stepping up within the brand means the larger SP-01 with its extended 25 Hz bass, then the matching PR-01 and PA-01 pair, which turns the speakers into a full single-designer Zeiler system.