DANIEL WEISS BIOGRAPHY

If you know anything at all of the history of Daniel Weiss, the founder and owner of the Swiss firm Weiss Engineering, you will realize why the company for many years designed and manufactured only professional digital electronics intended for use in recording and mastering studios. It’s because after graduating from HTL Rapperswil in 1979 with a BSEE, Weiss joined Studer/Revox where he designed analog anti-aliasing filters, test signal generators, sampling frequency converters and digital audio processors for one of the first digital recorders.

He left Studer/Revox in 1985 to found Weiss Engineering and after first creating the famous modular 102 Series system that’s still used by Sony Music in New York, he followed up with a range of specialist stand-alone studio components that included dynamics processors, de-noiser/de-clickers, A/D and D/A converters, and sampling rate converters, all of which used 40-bit floating point processors and sampling rates of up to 96kHz. In the pro audio field, Weiss Engineering is recognized as a leading company when it comes to signal processing. It’s quite likely many of the CDs in your collection were mastered using Weiss equipment and many of the downloads and streams on the Internet were also mastered using equipment from Weiss.

Indeed it wasn’t until the turn of the century that Weiss entered the high-end hi-fi market with a CD transport (Jason) and a DAC (Medea).