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 >
Like the rest of the world, The Netherlands has halted abruptily to conquer the Corona Covid-19 virus outbreak. Grimm Audio fortunately is still in full operation. Our facility is large enough for all personnel to respect the 1.5m distance that everyone has to maintain and if anyone has the slightest hint of not feeling wellread more >
Dutch classical music record label Channel Classics celebrates its 30 year anniversary with a present to all members of the English leading classical music magazine Gramophone. With this month’s edition they all receive an SACD of 13 tracks that were personally selected from Channel Classics’ vast catalog by Gramophone’s editor in chief James Jolly. Manyread more >
Like most countries of the world, The Netherlands is hit heavily by the Corona Covid-19 virus. This also affects our beloved music world strongly. Last Friday all concerts were cancelled for at least three weeks in our country, but if we follow the development of the pandemic, it is likely that this situation will lastread more >
Our MU1 Music Player is receiving critical acclaim for its sound quality. Many people ask us how a unit with just digital inputs and outputs can improve the sound quality so much, so we decided to write this explainer text. At the core of the MU1 a so called ‘FPGA’ processor is found. This isread more >
Grimm Audio has teamed up with Bert Bazuin of Terrason Audio (Vivid, PMC, Mola Mola, Arcam) to increase our portfolio of hifi dealers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. We are very proud to introduce to you no less than three new dealers, and more are coming soon! Jos Jansen of GoodMac in Laren offersread more >
We love to inform you that the V1.1 firmware of our MU1 Music Player has been released, making the MU1 a truly mature product. Although the initial firmware clearly demonstrated the unique capabilities of the MU1 and its FPGA upsampler, there were still some important features missing. This is all solved now. First of allread more >
The Chinese high end audio magazine Super AV from Shanghai has granted the MU1 their “Outstanding Overall Performance Award 2019” in the Digital Stream Systems category. They considered the MU1 to have “Excellent” performance. From their original review: “The MU1 shows us what a perfect digital facsimile looks like.” We are very grateful for thisread more >
A longread blog by Theodoor Borger. Foreword by Eelco Grimm: In 2015 Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger started collaborating under the moniker UNIFONY. The concept of this project is to invite guest musicians and together search for the pure essence of music. Wandering off the beaten track and rediscover purity by experimenting. Composing through carefullyread more >
In the second part of their MU1 review, hifi.nl’s Ruud Jonker takes a more technical approach to the MU1. But of course he also takes a listen… and becomes very enthusiastic: “The arrival of the MU1 marked a bright spot in this time of downfall thinking. The device activates the hug hormone. You lower yourread more >
We are proud to let you know that yet another enthusiastic review of the MU1 is published. Joachim Pfeiffer of the German Hifi & Musik Journal printed magazine gave it ‘5 stars’! We took pleasure in translating part of his story to English: “Most audio components on this globe are almost self-explanatory: a quick lookread more >
Alpha Audio published an overview of ‘defining gear of the 2010-2020 era’. Under the category “loudspeakers” Yung Lie writes: “Active speakers were reserved for the studio world until 2010. We have seen the active speaker systems slowly gain ground this decade. Surprisingly, in the high end segment there are many Dutch companies: Kii, dutch &read more >
The Dutch online magazine Hifi.nl has published part 1 of their MU1 review. Author René van Es is impressed: “Now it is finally time to enjoy music with just the MU1 as an oversampling music player with storage, server and endpoint in one box, as it was intended. For example, when playing a live recordingread more >
