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 >
In the first review of the LS1be, our new flagship product continues the “5 star saga” of the original LS1. Jaap Veenstra of the Dutch online hifi magazine Alpha Audio writes in his conclusion: “We don’t often have tears in our eyes when listening to music at our office. Now we do. The achievements of the LS1beread more >
Mix and mastering engineer (and teacher, journalist and author of the impressive book “Mixing with Impact”) Wessel Oltheten is a long time LS1 user. He asked to test the new LS1s-dmf sub in his studio. Soon his comment arrived: “These subs are insane! It took me 30 seconds to decide I had to buy them. Authoritative, open, tight,read more >
We have another rave review for the LS1, this time in the Norwegian magazine “Stereo+” (does the LS1 have the world record for 5 star reviews by now?). Look at what Roy Ervin Solstad has to say about the LS1: “Grimm shows that it is worth lending an ear to the pros. They know whatread more >
Yet another rave review of the LS1be: in 6 Moons! Or… rave review? Henk & Marja write: “Even though it doesn’t read like a rave, as experienced listeners will know, that really was most telling of all. This music system just did its job and got so perfectly out of the way that we couldread more >
There’s nothing like getting feedback from a very happy customer! John Davis of The Bunker Studio in New York bought a CC1 and wrote: “Your clock has really transformed the sound of our digital rig. The transparency of the soundstage and accuracy in the time domain is really stunning and brings out a level ofread more >
If someone would ask me, what is the most significant issue when it comes to sound quality, I could give only one answer: that technology does not hinder the artists. Grimm Audio was founded in 2004 for that very reason: to develop audio equipment that is as transparent as possible, so it aids in craftingread more >
Over the years the LS1 has seen some significant improvements, reason why the current LS1 sounds better than an LS1 from a couple of years back. We also introduced a new flagship product recently, the LS1be. Whenever we improve our products, we ensure our existing customers can profit too. So we like to offer themread more >
