Dutch Interface magazine published a UC1 review by mastering engineer and ‘creative entrepeneur’ Sander van der Heide. He was blown away by the UC1. “If you know that UC stands for ‘Universal Converter’, you already get a bit of an idea what kind of device this is. When I tell you ‘Universe Controller’ would beread more >
Sometimes we receive great emails with praise from our customers. That is always heart-warming and we share them with our whole team. This time the message was so wonderful that we asked for permission to share it with our full audience. It filled us with great joy and proud. We very much hope that allread more >
The German magazine Professional Audio takes a deep dive in all the possibilities that the UC1 offers. Journalist Malte Schmidt becomes excited. As plus points he notes: “excellent neutral sound, high quality word clock, smart functions such as compare mode, silent because of passive cooling”. He offered the UC1 the “Very Good, Top Class” verdictread more >
Well known mastering engineer Alan Silverman from New York had a UC1 on trial and refused to let it go. Alan Silverman has credits on over 60 Grammy winning and nominated albums. His track record includes sorted artists like Yola, Watchhouse, Judy Collins, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, The Kinks, Dolly Parton and Keith Richards. Weread more >
In a huge article of 8 pages, the German Studio Magazin puts a bright light on the unique versatility of the UC1. Journalist Friedemann Kootz laid his hand on one of the first UC1v2’s and checks it both in his studio and on his test bench. “Sometimes we test editors are lucky and a testread more >
All MU1 customers should run the new MU1 firmware update v1.3.4. It solves a problem that was introduced with the Roon v1.8 build 880 update of December 15th. Due to internal changes in the communication of Roon the Grimm Audio ‘extension’ stopped working. As a result the display information of the MU1 did not showread more >
We are very proud to let you know that the drafting committee of the AES td1008 “Streaming Loudness Recommendation” has received the first ever AES President’s Award. Eelco Grimm is member of this writing group that met for two years in a row, in the last year with two sessions of two hours per week.read more >
Mix and mastering engineer Wessel Oltheten is well known in The Netherlands and abroad for his great sounding work, and also for his book “Mixing with Impact”. He is a long term user of our LS1be system in his studio and so we asked him to have a look at our new UC1 USB interfaceread more >
At Grimm Audio team spirit is what drives us. Since our group of engineers grew considerably in the past years, not all members of the team work on the same project anymore. We therefore value our regular team meetings, where everyone gives a short update about their progress and possible struggles. And five times aread more >
We just released new UC1 firmware v1.1.3 and an updated manual. It adds some features that were still on our own wish list, but also features that our customers requested. With this update we consider the UC1 as final, because this is the way we intended it to be: a true ‘swiss army knife’ forread more >
We were struck with joy when we opened this month’ issue of Stereophile. The MU1 has been awarded the “Product of the Year Award 2021” in the Digital Component category! Wow… John Atkinson’s review was quoted in the text: “Oh my!” JA exclaimed (in writing) after hearing music made with data sent via the AES3read more >
Dutch online hifi magazine Alpha Audio just published the first ever UC1 review. Interestingly they tested the ‘pro audio’ UC1 in a hifi system. And not to the disappointment of editor Jaap Veenstra… “The Grimm Audio UC1 is intended for studios looking for a versatile converter for monitoring. An ultra-transparent, high-end switch box to switchread more >
