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 >
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 >
The Taiwan Audio Art Magazine published a review by Paul Tao, who was totally surprised by the performance of the MU1. He writes in his conclusion: “After listening to the Grimm Audio MU1, my perspective on streaming players has turned 180 degrees! In the past, I always thought that streaming players should just hand overread more >
In a hilarious introduction, 6Moons editor in chief Srajan Ebaen compares reviewing cables to mucking stables – an important but somewhat uninviting task. In spite of this he manages to write a poetic and sparkling review that reveals he was really inspired by our SQM cable. We can only recommend to read the full reviewread more >
MU1 customer FredM wrote an ‘objective review’ of the MU1 on the webforum Audiophilestyle. He measured the amount of goosebumps he got per listening session and put them in a chart. 🙂 “This is probably the most fact based experience I can share with you*. The items on the bottom represent the listening sessions, theread more >
Classical music has always been part of my life. My mother played piano and my father had various sizes of recorders. In my teenage years I also played piano and studied faithfully, although in hindsight my motivation would have been greater had I chosen an ensemble instrument. Although I mainly played classical pieces, the rawread more >
Dutch printed magazine HVT sports a second MU1 review, this time from long term journalist and audiophile Bert Oling. Bert brings in a few friends and everyone gets excited about the MU1’s sound quality. Especially about its power to unravel sonic details and present all elements in a natural balance. Bert writes: “Homogeneity is theread more >
