A couple of weeks ago I had a deep insight about why high quality audio offers listeners such a compelling experience. It goes like this: “Since man is mortal, his deepest desire is immortality. As a result, to witness an illusion of immortality can evoke a deep emotion of consolation. Written language helped mankind aread more >
Last winter we asked our landlord to mount 40 solar panels on the roof of our premises. Solar panels have become a very profitable investment, but apart from that we strongly believe that all companies should strive to minimize their ecological footprint where possible. Yesterday we finally got some rain in The Netherlands, after anread more >
The presentation of our new MU2 music streamer with built-in DAC at the High End Munich show was a great succes. Many visitors congratulated us with the massive stereo image, controlled low end, and overall ease of listening. Often we were given a thumbs up and big smile when people left the room. Jaap Veenstraread more >
At the High End Munich show 2023 we introduce our brand new MU2 music streamer to the audiophile audience. The MU2 is a sister product of our famous MU1. It offers the same functionality with integrated Roon Labs Core and End Point, but this time it has analog outputs in stead of digital ones. Theread more >
In this article we present some backgrounds of the design principles of the Grimm Audio ‘Major DAC’ digital to analog converter in our MU2 music streamer. Converting a digital signal into analog has always been a major challenge, which is clearly demonstrated by the abundance of DA conversion concepts that have seen the light over theread more >
Grimm Audio comes to Axpona for the first time! Eelco Grimm and John-Paul Lizars are present and love to demo the full system of MU1, LS1be and SB1 in room 1530. Visitors will enjoy the great sound of this integrated solution that received so much praise from reviewers and customers worldwide. As a sneak preview,read more >
The UK based online magazine with the illustrious name “Hifi Pig” did a review of the LS1be & MU1 system. Stuart Smith loved it as an end-game system for audiophiles that outgrow their box fetishes. He offered it “5 Hearts”! Below is a short excerpt, please read the full article here. “What I loved aboutread more >
We are delighted to introduce John-Paul Lizars as our Hifi Sales Director for North America. John-Paul’s huge network will give our sales position in the United States and Canada a big boost. Like most people at Grimm Audio, John-Paul has his roots in music, as you can read in his bio: A passion for musicread more >
On UK’s busy forum Hifi Wigwam (or WAM) an ‘official review’ of the MU1 was published by George Sallit. And he is seriously impressed… “The Grimm MU1 digital music source is one of those products that have come along and challenged all those fables and (giving the game away) improve the sound quality of bog-standardread more >
We released a firmware update for the MU1, version v1.5.1. This is a maintenance update, with some bug fixes for v1.5.0. The most important one is that DSD playback in 2FS oversample mode is functional again. For the other improvements, please read the Change Log document for v1.5.1. MU1 users, please note: during an MU1read more >
In the latest issue of HifiCritic, journalist Kevin Fiske reviews the MU1 and is touched by its magic. So much even that he offers it the HifiCritic Audio Excellence Award. We are happy to offer the full review pdf for you to read. Some excerpts are copied below. “With PCM and DSD files, the MU1 exhibitsread more >
