The MU1 is the ultimate digital music source. Combined with the LS1, it forms a peerlessly elegant High-End audio system.
We wanted to develop the most accurate audio source we could imagine. In our experience, the human hearing system shows an incredible sensitivity to anomalies. Even unimaginably small aberrations appear to be audible. In principle, digital audio does offer perfect reproduction. Its sonic quality, however, is limited by the implementation accuracy of the physical and mathematical laws that affect the conversion from one format to another. Grimm Audio strives to bring you confidence that all technical details are taken care of to the greatest extent so that the reproduction system steps out of the way of the music.read more >
The unorthodox French “Audiophile Magazine” published an in-depth review of the MU1 in their October 2020 edition. In no less than ten pages, editor Joël Chevassus runs the MU1 through five “confrontations” with other systems. He keeps looking for possible limitations, but eventually becomes strongly convinced about the MU1’s qualities. Some quotes from his text:read more >
Jon Nelson runs Ripcaster, our new dealer in Checkendon, UK. He made a great little introduction video of the MU1. Jon walks you through the options of a MU1 that sits on a small turntable, which is entertaining to watch. We recommend to check this out! And when you are near him in the “Chilternsread more >
In my ‘Favorites’ blog of last month I wrote about my Sonology studies. Many of my hardcore electronic music teachers did not care much for ‘romantic’ 19th century music, but without exception they admired Johann Sebastian Bach. And rightly so, of course. Bach is an immeasurably large musical monument. He has been in my liferead more >
On the lively online personal audio forum Head-fi John Massaria posted an enthusiastic shootout review with our pro cable TPR. Prior to the test he auditioned a few pro audio cables and only selected TPR as a candidate. His comment is quite entertaining to read… “The first thing I noticed was the bass – wow.read more >
The CC1mk2 has won the Japanese AEX Audio Excellence Award 2020 of Ongen Publishing. This is a unique achievement since the mk1 version of the CC1 also won this prestigious award, in 2009. The CC1 is likely the only product that won the award two times with an interval of more than 10 years. Theread more >
Our SQM cable has received Hong Kong magazine HiFi Review “Best Buy of the year 2020” award! It is the only winner in the “Interconnect Cable” category. Journalist Archimedes Chan knew our speaker and clock products from earlier tests but had not checked our cables before. He became very enthusiastic. “The SQM signal cable showsread more >
Dutch online hifi magazine hifi.nl published a true rave review of our SQM “Star Quad Master” cable. Ruud Jonker goes into depth in this long article, reaching a very clear conclusion at the end: “In general it is hard to claim that certain sound characteristics are strongly caused by a cable. Perhaps it’s therefore betterread more >
In this “Favorites” blog I pick up the thread of my personal history. After three years of electronics studies and discovering high-end audio through the renowned magazine Audio & Techniek (see this video interview with Jaap Veenstra) I went to study at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. I followed courses Music Registration and Sonologyread more >
In the “Friendly Forum for High End Audio” Audio Afficionado, subscriber Bart takes the readers on a trip to dealer Listening Matters in The Hague, where he landed in his search for the ideal digital music source. He describes his journey and observations with great enthusiasm, introducing many of the albums he played. It makesread more >
Grimm Audio aspires to making the full chain from microphone to listener more transparent. Sometimes we come across a music project that resonates with that same wish and the UNIFONY project by Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger is a good example. Their idea was “to see if they could come towards a deeper understanding ofread more >
Saturday morning August 15, right after our holidays, we were invited by Jaap Veenstra of Alpha Audio for an English spoken live stream interview about “the people behind Grimm Audio” – in other words: who are Guido Tent and Eelco Grimm? It turned out to be a long and very nice chat about our backgroundsread more >
