Dutch printed magazine Music Emotion presents a MU1 review of no less than 9 pages! Reviewer Ruud Jonker offers lots of background information about the system and its Roon Labs user interface. But he also gives a detailed description of his personal experience when listening to the MU1. Parts of the article were published inread more >
Hong Kong magazine Hifi Review posted a new version of their famed LS1be review on their website. It is heart warming to read this text, with such a positive vibe! We offer some translated fragments below. Journalist Chen Weichang: “Honestly, I had great expectations in advance, but I was still shocked by this speaker. Theread more >
Like the rest of the world, The Netherlands has halted abruptily to conquer the Corona Covid-19 virus outbreak. Grimm Audio fortunately is still in full operation. Our facility is large enough for all personnel to respect the 1.5m distance that everyone has to maintain and if anyone has the slightest hint of not feeling wellread more >
Dutch classical music record label Channel Classics celebrates its 30 year anniversary with a present to all members of the English leading classical music magazine Gramophone. With this month’s edition they all receive an SACD of 13 tracks that were personally selected from Channel Classics’ vast catalog by Gramophone’s editor in chief James Jolly. Manyread more >
Like most countries of the world, The Netherlands is hit heavily by the Corona Covid-19 virus. This also affects our beloved music world strongly. Last Friday all concerts were cancelled for at least three weeks in our country, but if we follow the development of the pandemic, it is likely that this situation will lastread more >
Our MU1 Music Player is receiving critical acclaim for its sound quality. Many people ask us how a unit with just digital inputs and outputs can improve the sound quality so much, so we decided to write this explainer text. At the core of the MU1 a so called ‘FPGA’ processor is found. This isread more >
Grimm Audio has teamed up with Bert Bazuin of Terrason Audio (Vivid, PMC, Mola Mola, Arcam) to increase our portfolio of hifi dealers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. We are very proud to introduce to you no less than three new dealers, and more are coming soon! Jos Jansen of GoodMac in Laren offersread more >
We love to inform you that the V1.1 firmware of our MU1 Music Player has been released, making the MU1 a truly mature product. Although the initial firmware clearly demonstrated the unique capabilities of the MU1 and its FPGA upsampler, there were still some important features missing. This is all solved now. First of allread more >
The French Audiophile Magazine published an in depth review of our SQM cable. Joël Chevassus was fan of our (discontinued) TPM cable and compares the two extensively. They appear to have a family character… “On the recording of Winterreise performed by Noemi Waysfeld (vocals) and Guillaume de Chassy (piano) released by Klarthe, the Grimm SQMread more >
The Chinese high end audio magazine Super AV from Shanghai has granted the MU1 their “Outstanding Overall Performance Award 2019” in the Digital Stream Systems category. They considered the MU1 to have “Excellent” performance. From their original review: “The MU1 shows us what a perfect digital facsimile looks like.” We are very grateful for thisread more >
A longread blog by Theodoor Borger. Foreword by Eelco Grimm: In 2015 Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger started collaborating under the moniker UNIFONY. The concept of this project is to invite guest musicians and together search for the pure essence of music. Wandering off the beaten track and rediscover purity by experimenting. Composing through carefullyread more >
In the second part of their MU1 review, hifi.nl’s Ruud Jonker takes a more technical approach to the MU1. But of course he also takes a listen… and becomes very enthusiastic: “The arrival of the MU1 marked a bright spot in this time of downfall thinking. The device activates the hug hormone. You lower yourread more >
