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The Hong Kong online magazine Fever Sound did a video interview with Eelco Grimm during the HKAV2018 show in Hong Kong in August. Eelco introduces several of Grimm Audio's products and talks about a few of the aspects that set them apart from the competition. Enjoy!

Hifi.nl reviews LS1a2018, September 6

Major Dutch online hifi magazine hifi.nl just published the LS1a review that journalist Jan de Jeu did for printed magazine Music Emotion. He wrote: “The Grimm Audio LS1a is an active speaker system that performs to the highest standards. And not just technically, but also in its musicality and sense of realism. For this money, I cannot assemble a system of separate components that performs at the same level.”

Grimm Audio has signed a sponsor contract with Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger for their ‘UNIFONY’ project. Grimm Audio believes that the chain of equipment and media between the music producers and consumers should become transparent, so that the listener can enjoy music like it was sonically intended. To share their dedication to music, Grimm Audio decided to present selected music projects to their audience, and let the general audience learn about Grimm Audio and their goal. With ‘UNIFONY’ Grimm Audio lays the first stone of this project, and it is a very special one.

 

Minco Eggersman is artist and composer of movie sound tracks as well as solo albums, Theodoor Borger is musician and sound engineer (relying on Grimm Audio equipment for much of their work). When they decided to create this special series featuring famous and befriended musicians, the ball started rolling. Norwegian trumpet player Mathias Eick, well known for his ECM albums, agreed to join this special project that is about creating new music based on sounds rather than notes. After the recordings were finished, Phill Brown (of Talk Talk fame - and many more) was so inspired that he could not resist to return to the studio and do one more album mix. That helped to convince famous mastering engineer Bob Ludwig to do the mastering. And to wrap it all up, graphical designer James Marsh (again Talk Talk) made some beautiful artwork. This whole project breathes dedication to the art of music and attention to details. It is perfectly suited to demonstrate Grimm Audio’s intentions. On October 12th, the first UNIFONY album will have its release, the second track ’Hunt’ just saw its pre-release, after ‘Ascend’ last spring. 

 

In the picture: Eelco Grimm of Grimm Audio with Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger, celebrating their cooperation with a beer brewed by Minco. 

The BeatRig Grimm Audio LevelViewS software is now available in the Avid Store!

BeatRig’s Grimm Audio LevelViewS is a light weight EBU R128 & ATSC A/85 loudness meter, optimised for short program material (like commercials, leaders, bumpers, etc) and the music industry. When your program is short, you just want a clear view of the most important loudness parameters: Integrated Program Loudness, Short Term Loudness, Momentary Loudness and True Peak level. LevelViewS offers the clearest view of these levels, guiding you to hit the target level always. The unique ‘follow DAW’ function makes your life easier: it automatically updates the result when changing just part of your mix. No need for re-measuring the whole program. The handsome LevelViewS loudness meter is a professional tool for a bargain price. 

Hong Kong Hi-End audio magazine Hifi Review published a grand review of the LS1be plus DMF subs in June. One month later they released the review for online access. We are sure that our Chinese fans will enjoy this 12 page review very much.

Dutch magazine Music Emotion published a review of the LS1a in their ’summer edition’. Reviewer Jan de Jeu is very enthusiastic about the LS1a and its concept: “the Grimm Audio LS1a is an active loudspeaker system that plays in the highest league. Both with the technology and with a musical and truthful playback. And that at a budget price. For the money I cannot assemble a system of separate components and cables that performs at this level.” Before this conclusion Jan writes about a series of songs he played in various music styles, and that moved him strongly: “phenomenal!”

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 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 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 Pinterest2018, 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!

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  • It was as if a veil was lifted from the mix: clarity, punch, depth, stereo image, everything improved.

    Matthijs Kievit, Studio Joneski, Utrecht (CC2)

  • It will be almost impossible to achieve the same sound quality when spending the same price on separate hifi components

    Archimedes Chan, HiFi Review, Hong Kong (LS1be)

  • The low-frequency temporal resolution is high, and the rendering of tonal pitch in the extremely low-frequency range is very precise

    Sam Ho, HiFi Review, Hong Kong (LS1be)

  • If you like a fast, solid and accurate music reproduction for all kinds of music, this system will surprise you!

    River Chan, HiFi Review, Hong Kong (LS1be)

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    Jan de Jeu, Music Emotion magazine, Amsterdam (LS1a)

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    John Davis, The Bunker Studio, New York (CC1)

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    Wai-Shan Lam, hifi enthusiast, Hong Kong (LS1)

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    Thaddeus Moore, Liquid Mastering, Eugene (LS1)

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    Peter Riebeek, Studio 150, Amsterdam (CC1)

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    Mark den Hartog, Zownd Mastering, Leiderdorp (TPR)

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    Bart Jilesen, Studio Bart Jilesen, Utrecht (LS1)

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    Puck Leek, Pucksound, Amsterdam (CC2)

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    René Gambini, Lyrinx, Marseille (AD1)

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    Günther Pauler, Pauler Acoustics, Northeim (CC1)

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    Ronald Prent, Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum (TPR)

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    George Massenburg, McGill University, Montreal (LS1)

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    Frederik DeJongh, Jerboa Mastering, Gent (LS1)

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    Timothy Roth, Positive Feedback (LS1)

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    Mark Conese, Ambient Records, Stamford (AD1)

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    Marja Vanderloo & Henk Boot, 6Moons (LS1)

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    Fritz Fey, Studio Magazin, Oberhausen (LS1)

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    Ulrich Watermann, Berlin (LS1)

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    Dimitris Stamatakos, AVMentor, Athens (LS1)

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    Marja Vanderloo & Henk Boot, 6Moons (LS1be)

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    Dave Collins, Dave Collins Mastering, Los Angeles (TPR)

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    Bogdan Roscic, President Sony Classical, Berlin (LS1)

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    Marnix Bosman, HVT magazine, Baarn (CC1)

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    Wolfram Eifert, AUDIOphile, Stuttgart (LS1)

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    Hudson Fair, Atelier HudSonic, Chicago (TPR)

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    Wessel Oltheten, Spoor 14, Boxtel (LS1s-dmf)

  • Grimm's mission to eliminate the sound of the system and present just the original recording seems totally true.

    Josep Armengol, Revista On Off, Madrid (LS1)

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    Wessel Oltheten, Pro Audio & Video magazine, Buren (LS1)

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    Jaap Veenstra, Alpha Audio, Haarlem (LS1a)

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    Gerard Lombrez, Lille (CC1)

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    Marnix Bosman, Interface magazine, Amsterdam (CC2)

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    Günter Pauler, Stockfish Records, Northeim (TPR)

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    Friedemann Kootz, Studio Magazin, Oberhausen (CC1)

  • After installing your CC1, I often catch myself thinking that I listen to 88.2 when in reality it is 44.1. Their difference used to be much larger, and both sound much better now.

    Reyn Ouwehand, Studio The Church, Wijdenes (CC1)

  • The Grimm DSD and Channel Classics have captured a perfect balance between energy, liveliness and comfortable sound.

    Teresa Goodwin, Positive Feedback (AD1)

  • My audition of the LS1 was a transformative experience.

    George Massenburg, McGill University, Montreal (LS1)

  • This week we used the MP1’s with the M50s of my colleague. We were both astonished.

    Noah Scot Snyder, Los Angeles (MP1)

  • Just recorded Mahler 1 with Filharmonie and Edo de Waart. We had the Grimm LS1's on trial. Never heard so much in a recording, really impressive.

    Steven Maes, Motor Music, Mechelen (LS1)

  • You will have to go to great lengths to find something that matches this sound quality for the same price.

    Roy Ervin Solstad, Stereo+, Oslo (LS1)

  • Those subwoofers are pretty darned impressive. Thanks!

    Aaron Garrett, hifi enthusiast, Cambridge (LS1s-dmf)

  • I was thrilled with your power supplies for my Neumann M50's. We used those mics for an upcoming Chandos release of the Kansas City Chorus, and they were stunning.

    John Newton, Soundmirror, Boston (MP1)

  • I didn't know clock influence was that big!

    Tim Vine-Lott, Air studios, London (CC1)

  • I've played everything from Rammstein to chamber music on these speakers, and they eat everything raw.

    Roy Ervin Solstad, Stereo+, Oslo (LS1)

  • The reviews I read are good, but to me what I experienced in our system was greater.

    Aaron Gandia, Phat Planet Studios, Orlando (CC1)

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    Marnix Bosman, HVT, Nijmegen (TPM)

  • I love your cable because it is effectively inaudible. With TPR, cable quality is no issue anymore.

    Jan Didden, Linear Audio, Turnhout (TPR)

  • The LS1 is by far the best speaker that AUDIO had the pleasure of reviewing in over 35 years; this especially in the two crucial audiophile disciplines of neutrality and detail reproduction.

    Wolfram Eifert, AUDIO, Stuttgart (LS1)

  • I had that feeling of an open window into sound, across a wide range of music styles.

    Nigel Palmer, Audio Media, London (LS1)

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    Hiro, Pure Super Audio (AD1)

  • The CC1 is a brilliantly designed piece of equipment. Every piece of gear that I plugged into it sounded better and more natural.

    Erik Zobler, Mix Magazine, Los Angeles (CC1)

  • I LOVE the clean transfer of your TPR cable. It´s like there´s no cable at all.

    George Tanderø, Mixing & Mastering, Oslo (TPR)

  • I’ve rewired my studio with TPR cable and I now bring some with me to recording sessions as well. It is extraordinary cable.

    Noah Scot Snyder, Los Angeles (TPR)

  • I want to congratulate you for making the best sounding, most phase linear, transient accurate, and all around beautiful speaker system on the planet

    Thaddeus Moore, Liquid Mastering, Eugene (LS1)

  • Its job is so critical that I’d never settle for less.

    Richard Chycki, Toronto (CC1)

  • Their natural sound and their unimposing, deep trueness kept overwhelming me and my colleagues.

    Bernhard Rietschel, Editor in Chief of AUDIO, Stuttgart (LS1)

  • As it turns out, Truth equals Love.

    Timothy Roth, Positive Feedback (LS1)

  • The LS1's frequency response is unusually flat - indeed the flattest we've ever measured.

    Keith Howard, Hi-Fi News, Croydon (LS1)

  • I had expected a small sound improvement. What happened is just the opposite: I am very impressed.

    Gerd Hoppe, hifi enthusiast, Alicante (CC1)

  • Best sound of show, stunning, Meisterhaft.

    Theo Wubbolts, HVT magazine, Nijmegen (LS1)

  • This is such an incredibly good speaker.

    Jaap Veenstra, Alpha Audio, Haarlem (LS1be)

  • Very impressive.

    Steve Hall, Future Disc, Los Angeles (AD1)

  • Among all the truly excellent SACDs from Channel Classics, the very best sound quality wise is the Mahler 4th recorded with the Grimm IMHO.

    Chris Fredriksson, HiFi enthusiast, Sweden (AD1)

  • Grimm products have that typically Dutch sound character that I love: warm but clear.

    Yasushi Hamase, Be-Tone studio, Kawasaki City (AD1)

  • Realize that not all timepieces are created equally. In this regard, the Grimm CC1 has no peer.

    Bob Katz and Garrett Haines, TapeOp, Sacramanto (CC1)

  • One for all and everything.

    Fritz Fey, Studio Magazin, Oberhausen (LS1)

  • The LS1be has a very beautiful low end, that not only goes to great depth, but is of exceptional pureness.

    Marnix Bosman, HVT magazine, Nijmegen (LS1be)

  • I heard the LS1 in NYC at the AES Convention... man, I was really impressed. Although it was at the booth, I could identify my mix immediately. So far the best speakers I've heard.

    Christian Klotzbücher, Kunstuniversität Graz, Graz (LS1)

  • A fantastic experience to work with this device.

    Hein Dekker, producer for Channel Classics, Baarn (AD1)

  • Truly a remarkable system, the equal or better of anything I've ever heard.

    Dave Collins, Dave Collins Mastering, Los Angeles (LS1)

  • I was focusing more on the music than the equipment, something that rarely happens when I listen to digital...

    Tony Bolton, Hi-fi World, London (CC1)

  • This is the first plug-n-play, all-in-one, system with true high-end sound.

    Marshall Nack, Positive Feedback (LS1)

  • With the Grimm LS1 unexpected details appear in the recordings: nothing is hidden, and everything sounds delicious.

    Josep Armengol, Revista On Off, Madrid (LS1)

  • I buy and sell a lot of stuff, but the CC1 is not leaving the building.

    Alex Abrash, AA Mastering, New York (CC1)

  • LevelView is a fascinating loudness metering system that is hard to go without once you try it.

    Tommy Zai, KVR, Phoenix (LevelView)

  • TPR outperforms all the others providing an impressive stereo image and a stunningly accurate phantom center.

    Philip Opdebeeck, Little Major Mastering, Antwerp (TPR)

  • I had a client ask why my mixes were so much better this week.

    John Davis, The Bunker Studio, New York (CC1)

  • Sensational! I have never found this quality in any commercial AD converter.

    Ronald Prent, Galaxy Studios, Mol (AD1)

  • A second Grammy: your technology helped me get there…

    Al Pryor, Mack Avenue Records, New York (LS1)

  • This clock is incredible. The detail and imaging from it are superior to anything we heard.

    Allen Farmelo, Pink Noise magazine, Hopewell Junction (CC1)

  • Did Grimm Audio reinvent the loudspeaker?

    Bert Oling, Hi-fi Video Test, Nijmegen (LS1)

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