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 >
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 >
Journalist Pu Dong of Hong Kong printed magazine Audiotechnique was overwhelmed by the LS1be performance. He tries to find words, gets poetic and writes that “he will forget the taste of meat for three months”, which refers to the famous Book 7 of the Analects of Confucius, in which Confucius wrote that he forgot theread more >
Journalist Kwok-yan of the Hong Kong online magazine Fever Sound did a very thorough Youtube review of the MU1. English subtitles have just become available so now the western world can also enjoy this very interesting review. He starts with a great statement: “The MU1 is a music streamer that may appear very simple, butread more >
Today Thursday May 21st, in stunningly beautiful weather, we would be celebrating 30 years of Channel Classics with a vibrant garden party at Jared Sacks’ gorgeous home at the river Waal in the Netherlands. As a result of COVID-19, this celebration with music performed by Channel Artists surrounded by industry contacts and friends has obviouslyread more >
Jason Kennedy of online high end magazine The Ear is the first UK Journalist to lay his hands on the MU1 and he shows great enthusiasm in his review: “This is the most exciting streamer I have heard for a long time“. We are delighted that he even granted us the “Editor’s Choice Award”, whichread more >
HVT’s John van der Veer, audio journalist and musician, offered our Amsterdam dealer Rick Oldersom of Hifi Solutions a visit and was blown away when listening to the MU1. He wrote a very entertaining review for his magazine about this experience. Please find some translated excerpts below. “(…) Rick can’t resist the temptation to whisperread more >
Facebook friends of Grimm Audio and people who spotted our advertisements will not have missed the remarkable ‘magical’ photography that we use for some time now. Soon we will dedicate a blog to a ‘behind the scenes’ story of the epic photo shoot of these pictures. But first we wanted to put a spot lightread more >
Last month we posted a blog about the initiative by the Dutch label TRPTK to add a ‘Buy this artist a coffee’ button to their artists’ web pages. The idea was to offer a relieve to musicians who lost most of their income because all concerts are cancelled to help defeat Covid-19. This button remindedread more >
The influential online audiophile magazine 6Moons has published a vibrant review of the MU1. The famed duo Henk & Marja did an interview with Eelco Grimm and Guido Tent and took the MU1 to an extensive listening test. The article is abundantly illustrated with pictures of our facility and the interior of the MU1, andread more >
