Jürg Jecklin was born in Chur in 1938. He worked as a sound engineer at Radio DRS for about 30 years before he was appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. As an author, he has published around 400 specialist articles in various domestic and foreign journals, as well as three books: das Lautsprecherbuch, Musikaufnahmen, Mono-Stereo-Quadro.

For his work as a sound engineer, Jürg Jecklin developed the OSS recording technique with the so-called Jecklin disc, the Transdyn sound processor and the Jecklin Float electrostatic headphones.