With the PA1, we proudly present an amplifier that offers a musicality like found in the best tube based designs while simultaneously challenging the rock-solid performance achieved with the best solid-state designs. Notwithstanding its relatively compact shape, the PA1 delivers more than 200 W into 4 Ω, and is capable of driving even the mostread more >
Christopher Hildebrand of our Richmond (US) dealer Fern & Roby wrote a beautiful blog post called “Learning to Listen to Digital Music Again”. He takes the reader on his personal music listening journey. It started with focussed music listening at home as a kid but he stopped active listening completely after being subjected to MP3read more >
Vinyl is great! Or better: Vinyl can be great. But only if you calibrated your turntable with utmost care and dedication. This story is to help you get there. Don’t expect a 30 page manual, there are better ways these days now that we have Youtube (and DVDs). I’ll get to that in the end of thisread more >
Stereophile’s Rogier van Bakel did an interview with Eelco Grimm after his enthusiastic LS1c review. It is now available online on Stereophiles’ website. Eelco talks about the LS1 design, the company’s history, room EQ, motional feedback, loudspeaker ‘toe-in’, digital audio and more. Highly recommended. read more >
Since Eelco enjoyed recording the MU2 podcast with John Darko so much, he promised to return soon and discuss more general audio topics. Darko’s ’10 myths’ series appeared to be the perfect stage for that. In this episode Eelco states that so called myths are often attempts to simplify complex matter, in other words “blanketread more >
We are excited to introduce our latest sibling to you: the PW1 phono preamplifier. It is the perfect companion for a MU2, an LS1, or any other audio system of your choice. And its sound quality can be called unique by all measures. Grimm Audio’s co-founder Peter van Willenswaard was the chief designer of theread more >
This is a story about the first phono preamp of Grimm Audio, the PW1. I have designed quite a few phono preamps in my time, between 10 and 20 I guess, and using all types of technology: transistors, fets and tubes. I also analyzed and modified three or four times that number of commercial phonosread more >
The remarkable picture in our advertisements, showing a bionic hand and a human hand hovering above a MU1, was used as an illustration in Eelco Grimm’s essay “Conscious about consciousness” half a year ago. This essay was an effort to help understand how the human mind works, making it easier to feel empathy for peopleread more >
Eelco Grimm has always had a fascination for how the human brain works, both from a psychological and a philosophical point of view. A scientific paper that showed how music reduces cognitive dissonance inspired him to write a deep essay on human consciousness. The writing took a few years and it’s become a text full of mental vistas. A long read to cherish.read more >
Yesterday we proudly presented our new “SB2” subwoofer on the social media. Many people checked the date and weren’t fooled. But the question remained: what on earth is this sub? Our R&D engineer Floris Schropp found this Intersonic Servodrive SDL-5 subwoofer on a marketplace. It is a unique subwoofer design from the early 80’s byread more >
