We feel incredibly honoured that our MU2 Streamer DAC & Preamplifier has received the “Overall Product of the Year 2026” award by the Stereophile reviewers team! At the same time it was given the “Digital Source Component of the Year” award, which it also received in 2024. This means that the MU2 won this prestigious award twice, an extremely rare accolade that happened just a few times in the history of Stereophile. Higher praise in the highend audio world is hardly possible…
John Atkinson, chair of the awards committee, enlightens their verdict as follows: “The Grimm MU2 was not only Stereophile’s Digital Source Component of 2026; fittingly, its superb performance in both the digital and analog domains also won it our Overall Product of the Year award. As OB writes in his Editor’s Choice text, the MU2 “dutifully practices its sublime craft with a degree of perfectionist finesse that you fully appreciate only when it’s absent.”
The “Product of the Year” awards of the Stereophile reviewers are selected for seven categories in two rounds. To receive the “Overall Product of the Year” award, the product first needs to become winner of its category and then its collected points are compared to the points that the other category winners received. This means there is consensus among many reviewers who wins the “Overall Product of the Year” award.
Our team is filled with gratitude for this acclaim. We keep developing and improving the MU2 with regular software updates and so it gained functionality and sounds even better than it did in 2024. To receive such great acknowledgement for our hard work by getting the Stereophile award a second time is a real boost. It’s also a recognition of our choice to not release a new model with minor changes every year but keep improving our catalog products and offer existing users updates of software and (occasionally) hardware. This way, they join our ongoing journey towards the ultimate in sound quality and music enjoyment.
“The MU2 dutifully practices its sublime craft with a degree of perfectionist finesse that you fully appreciate only when it’s absent.” – The Stereophile reviewers team.
