Eelco Grimm is researcher at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and works on loudness normalization topics. He wrote a “Recommendation for loudness normalization by Music Streaming Services”. This document is the summary of a large survey that Eelco conducted on 4.2 million albums of the database of music streaming service Tidal. A protocol wasread more >
In their May issue, the German high profile magazin Audio Flatscreen Journal (of former ‘Audio’ editor-in-chief Joachim Pfeiffer) published a review of the LS1be: “A fairytale come true”. The LS1be is ranked highest of all speakers tested to date. In their words: ” ‘Unbelievable’ collegue Patrick Boch sighed, who could not stop to enjoy his Tidal playlistread more >
We are happy to announce the kick-off of a social media campaign that puts our customers in the spotlight! Grimm Audio is run by people who are passionate about music and audio. We are driven to realize our dreams about increasing the quality of the musical experience. Nothing feels as good as when we see peopleread more >
Last Monday I dismantled part of the anechoic chamber in Hilversum that has served me so well for more than 16 years. HKU University of the Arts where I teach moved to Utrecht and unfortunately we could not take the chamber with us so it will be wasted. There are few other spaces where Iread more >
Ineke and Jan-Hendrik Steensel allowed us to take some pictures of the LS1be system in their living room and also photograph Jan-Hendrik for a promotion picture. They told us what made them decide to buy the LS1be. Jan-Hendrik: “For us, music is something to enjoy together. It is one of those things that connects us.read more >
Fritz Fey of Studio Magazin in Germany was totally blown away when he reviewed the LS1be. Please taste a bit of his enthusiasm in our English translation of the summary of a 6 page review with the compelling title “The better is the enemy of the good”: “The LS1be provides an absolutely authentic, complete andread more >
LevelOne has been the industries’ standard desktop loudness normalizer for years. After years of innovation it is now time for the biggest update to date: Version 2. LevelOneV2 was rebuild from the ground up. Of course it still offers fast drag and drop loudness analysis and processing of files and folders, in compliance with theread more >
On February 7th, the Swedish statistician Hans Rosling died, at the too young age of 68 years. He inspired me a lot with his TED talks, in which he passionately presented beautiful statistical graphs that show the great progress that all corners of the world have seen in the past century. Health, income, babies perread more >
The LS1s-dmf “Digital Motion Feedback” subwoofer was developed in cooperation with Rob Munnig Schmidt, who worked at Philips and ASML and was professor at the Technical University Delft. Rob explains his design motives: “Being lifelong fascinated by precision control of motion systems and sound reproduction I never was happy with the unbalance in audio design betweenread more >
Dutch leading hifi magazine HVT did a review of the LS1be. Marnix Bosman was seriously impressed. He writes about a particularly difficult reference track of him, Miserere of Arvo Pärt by the Hilliard Ensemble: “With many systems the result is a severe mash-up, caused by distortion and coloration. With the LS1be the sound image staysread more >
The Dutch consumer electronics ‘comparison’ site BesteProduct.nl (founded in 2006, 1032 own reviews per year, 600,000 unique visitors every month) has rewarded the LS1be with a “top 5” position in their “most outstanding audio and TV product of the year” competition. Within the top 5 there were just two audio products present. The verdict ofread more >
The LS1be was selected by Jaap Veenstra of Alpha Audio as his personal ‘pick of the year’ and it therefore received an ‘Alpha Audio Approved’ Award! Jaap’s verdict in translation: “The Grimm LS1be (had impact) because of the unprecedented truthfulness, without being lifeless or unemotional. The Grimm even went so far to give rise toread more >
