After a very positive experience with the LS1be, German Lowbeats editor Jürgen Schröder became curious for the MU1. In his recent MU1 review he did a comparative listening test and often found these two words in his notes: “clearly better”. “The music played from the MU1 sounded more defined, direct, tangible, more colorful, with sharperread more >
In response to a customer who reported an issue when using foldback at 192 kHz sampling, we release new firmware for the UC1, v1.2.6. It adds just a patch for this bug, since in this customer’s words: “Outside of that one bug, the unit has been bulletproof”. The update is done via a Windows computer.read more >
Steve Huff runs a very personal online review blog for many years. “Reviews from the heart” is his credo and that’s the case without any doubt. Initially Steve focused on cameras and lenses, but since a few years he mainly writes about audiophile equipment. The MU1 for sure triggered his heart… Please enjoy some excerptsread more >
AudioKey Reviews is a relative new online magazine from the US that is different from most. It has the high quality layout of a printed magazine, but is only available online, gratis. Just perfect for reading on a tablet. The reviews are also available as web pages. AKR’s editor in chief K.E. Heartsong did aread more >
The UC1 finds its way to more and more customers and they offer us valuable feedback. In firmware v1.2.5 all reported items have been solved, and the UC1’s USB performance is now rock solid all the way up to 20 simultaneous channels of 192 kHz. UC1 users, please note that a special ‘standalone’ mode hasread more >
Sound on Sound’s Hugh Robjohns took our UC1 to test and was very happy with the results. He writes about all the special features of the UC1 at length, and explains not just what these features are, but also why you would want them. But most of all he gets excited about the sound qualityread more >
Under the hood, the last MU1 firmware update brought a lot of changes. We are very proud on our development team that there have been relatively few customer reports about bugs in that release. In todays update these are all addressed, and we also offer a few small improvements. Among these are larger slider areasread more >
Rarely have we received such a lyrical text as the LS1be/SB1/MU1 system review by Meik Wippermann for German magazine Hörerlebnis. We were left speechless by his unlimited enthusiasm. Meik even allowed us to offer our readers an online pdf of the German text, one month before the magazine is printed! For everyone who does notread more >
At the Munich High End show, May 19th – 22nd, Grimm Audio introduces a new variant of the LS1 loudspeaker system: Nano legs. With Nano legs an LS1 can be placed on top of a side table or dresser. This is an advantage in for instance small rooms where every square meter counts – theread more >
At the 152nd AES convention in The Hague, Eelco Grimm was granted the AES Fellowship Award. This award is given to an AES member “who has rendered conspicuous service or is recognized to have made a valuable contribution to the advancement in or dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of itsread more >
We love to present you the latest addition to our production and research tool set: an anechoic corner! With these professional acoustic foam wedges we can measure quasi-anechoically with great precision down to 100 Hz, with the loudspeaker under test still at a comfortable height for handling. There is a great story behind this project.read more >
With great pride we present you the new v1.4.0 firmware for the MU1. Almost 6 months of work went into this release. Many important elements were added to the internal software structure, as a foundation to future functions. And the new functions that are already realised with this update are no less than spectacular. Firstread more >
