Everett Porter Master of Sound 2018, June 29
Friday June 29th our dealer in The Hague Chattelin Audio Systems has a very special 'Master of Sound' event: famous classical music engineer/producer Everett Porter of Polyhymnia International will present his work with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on a 5 channel LS1be+DMF surround system! The monitor system in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam studio also has 5 LS1's, so chances are high that the visitor will hear the recordings as they are intended. There's still some tickets left...
Seminars at AVF2018 2018, June 23
Our distributor for Asia Kent Poon of Square Wave in Hong Kong has another show this weekend. At the AVF2018 he will have no less than 5 seminars per day, focussing on audio master clocks with our CC1 and CC2, demoing the new UC1, and of course the LS1be with DMF sub will receive a lot of attention.
Hong Kong HiFi Review amazed by LS1be 2018, June 15
The major Hong Kong High End audio magazine “HiFi Review” did a review of the LS1be with DMF subs with no less than four reviewers, and made it their cover story. The reviewers were unanimously amazed. Please enjoy a translation of their judgements:
1) “The Grimm Audio LS1 playback system, which was selected as radio and recording monitoring system for the famous Amsterdam ‘Concertgebouw’ Concert Hall in the Netherlands, was definitely stunning in quality! If you prefer a coloured sound, this system may not be for you, but even then you should spend some time with it and perhaps change your opinion. If however you like to enjoy a fresh experience of fast, solid and accurate music reproduction for all kinds of music, this system will surprise you!” (River Chan)
2) “Hifi enthusiasts don’t need to worry over the sound quality of the LS1be+ LS1s-dmf's, nor over the required financial resources or space requirements. They only need self-examination about whether they are in this audio game to ‘play the machine’ or to listen to music. If the latter is the case, then this set of speakers will give you tremendous fun, and it will be almost impossible to achieve the same sound quality when spending the same price on separate hifi components.” (Archimedes Chan )
3) “When just looking at this active two-way bookshelf speakers with upward firing active subwoofer, I could never have imagined such powerful low frequency performance. Drum sounds can be played at high sound pressure levels, with a solid and strong kick drum. The sound is clean, fast and without resonance of its own. The low-frequency temporal resolution is high, and the rendering of tonal pitch in the extremely low-frequency range is very precise. This skill alone is worth more than €50,000!" (Sam Ho)
4) “The Grimm LS1be offers a much higher absolute audio quality than all of the overpriced astronomical speakers on today's premium audio market. During the entire audition process of the review, only music files were used as a source. Undoubtedly I heard the best computer file playback to date. To demonstrate the LS1be's low-distortion performance, we played a loud techno dance track, that shook my pants and pushed my heart to my brain! Even at these extremely high sound pressure levels, not the tiniest trace of distortion or compression was heard!” (Zhong Yi)
Cable assembly pinout document 2018, April 20
Cable assemblies are available in many different types. One can easily get lost in the woods, especially when interfacing unbalanced and balanced equipment, or using sub-D connectors for analog or digital audio. As a service to our cable assembly customers, we wrote an extensive document that shows the standard pinouts and wirings of the various connectors and interfaces that we support in our TPR cable web shop. The writing took quite some effort, but we are glad to see that the document has become a pretty decent reference. We hope you enjoy it!
We Share Your Passion - Wessel Oltheten 2018, April 6
We are thrilled to show you the first short movie we produced at Grimm Audio. It is a portrait of Wessel Oltheten, a well known mix engineer in The Netherlands. Wessel relies on Grimm Audio LS1be loudspeakers with DMF motional feedback subwoofers for his mix decisions. It took him “30 seconds to decide I had to buy the DMF subwoofers”, as he told us. Please enjoy to see him at work in his well equipped studio in Boxtel, The Netherlands.
As a happy coincidence Wessels wonderful book “Mixing with Impact” has just reached the shops in an English translation. With our movie we toast to an international successful career, cheers Wessel!
And a big Thank You to everybody who made this movie possible: Bart Jilesen, Jochem Bakker and Rik Meier.
Find us on Pinterest 2018, February 22
Pinterest is very popular with people who look for inspiration to enhance their life and living. Since we have a growing set of beautiful LS1 pictures in studios and living rooms, we decided to join Pinterest so our photos will add some inspiration to the moodboards... Enjoy!
New partner Kent Poon in Asia 2018, February 16
We are thrilled to introduce to you our new Grimm Audio partner for the Asian market: Kent Poon of Square Wave Ltd. Kent is in the audio business for a very long time. He is a well known producer and sound engineer in Hong Kong, but many people also know him from his long term sales activities for Weiss Engineering and many other brands. In the past decade Kent Poon has broadened his sales network to also cover high end hifi and this makes him a natural match with Grimm Audio. His LS1be demo set will soon arrive at his office in Hong Kong, so please order a demo with him to celebrate the Chinese new year!
How important is the DSD rate? 2018, February 13
High res download shop Native DSD receives many questions about the oversample rate of DSD: 64fs, 128fs, 256 fs or even higher. Bigger numbers always seem better, but Native DSD claims that in the end the most important thing is not the oversampling rate but the quality of the recording converter in the audio band. To offer their customers an opportunity to listen to all these differences themselves, they made parallel recordings with the Grimm Audio AD1 and a competitor and also offer various oversampling rates of these files, made in postproduction. A very interesting listen.
Rock solid clock 2017, October 8
Dutch music production magazine Interface has a review of our CC2 master clock in its latest issue. Marnix Bosman writes: “I checked the CC2 in my studio in combination with various recent and older models of converters and interfaces. Except with one very expensive high end converter, I could always hear improvements in sound quality, varying from relatively subtle to very clear. (…) Are you someone who has an eye for detail and always likes to have the best results? Please consider the CC2. Even if your studio only has one converter device, the CC2 possibly offers a great improvement in sound quality for your recording and playback chain.”
LS1 unveils everything 2017, October 6
Here we go again. For the Spanish Hifi magazine Revista On Off, Josep Armengol reviewed the LS1 plus LS1s subs. He writes:
“The transparency of the sound is tremendous. One could really think that you have the artists in front of you. Grimm's mission to eliminate the sound of the system and present just the original recording seems totally true. At the same time, if the system is fed with less than optimal recordings, the sound does not become unpleasant, which is often a problem with other studio monitors that can be too analytic.
The sub woofer is very well integrated, I even touched them to see if they were working. This is of course the ideal: that subwoofers perform their duty unnoticed. The set offers a well defined low end, rhythmic and deep, never exaggerated, in fact for some rock discs I added a dB of low end in the LS1 software just for fun.
The magnificent Grimm LS1 boxes always seem to get the best out of a recording and let you enjoy the spirit of the music, but in a very different manner than - for example - a traditional system with valves, with a romantic sound. But even so you end up listening for long hours because you don’t feel any sign of fatigue. And along the way you discover details in discs that you thought you knew in depth. Noises from the studio, sheet music moving, fingers on instruments, whispers ... impressive how the Grimm’s unveil ‘everything’.”
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