In this “Favorites” blog I pick up the thread of my personal history. After three years of electronics studies and discovering high-end audio through the renowned magazine Audio & Techniek (see this video interview with Jaap Veenstra) I went to study at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. I followed courses Music Registration and Sonologyread more >
In the “Friendly Forum for High End Audio” Audio Afficionado, subscriber Bart takes the readers on a trip to dealer Listening Matters in The Hague, where he landed in his search for the ideal digital music source. He describes his journey and observations with great enthusiasm, introducing many of the albums he played. It makesread more >
Grimm Audio aspires to making the full chain from microphone to listener more transparent. Sometimes we come across a music project that resonates with that same wish and the UNIFONY project by Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger is a good example. Their idea was “to see if they could come towards a deeper understanding ofread more >
Saturday morning August 15, right after our holidays, we were invited by Jaap Veenstra of Alpha Audio for an English spoken live stream interview about “the people behind Grimm Audio” – in other words: who are Guido Tent and Eelco Grimm? It turned out to be a long and very nice chat about our backgroundsread more >
The Taiwan Audio Art Magazine published a review by Paul Tao, who was totally surprised by the performance of the MU1. He writes in his conclusion: “After listening to the Grimm Audio MU1, my perspective on streaming players has turned 180 degrees! In the past, I always thought that streaming players should just hand overread more >
In a hilarious introduction, 6Moons editor in chief Srajan Ebaen compares reviewing cables to mucking stables – an important but somewhat uninviting task. In spite of this he manages to write a poetic and sparkling review that reveals he was really inspired by our SQM cable. We can only recommend to read the full reviewread more >
MU1 customer FredM wrote an ‘objective review’ of the MU1 on the webforum Audiophilestyle. He measured the amount of goosebumps he got per listening session and put them in a chart. 🙂 “This is probably the most fact based experience I can share with you*. The items on the bottom represent the listening sessions, theread more >
Classical music has always been part of my life. My mother played piano and my father had various sizes of recorders. In my teenage years I also played piano and studied faithfully, although in hindsight my motivation would have been greater had I chosen an ensemble instrument. Although I mainly played classical pieces, the rawread more >
Dutch printed magazine HVT sports a second MU1 review, this time from long term journalist and audiophile Bert Oling. Bert brings in a few friends and everyone gets excited about the MU1’s sound quality. Especially about its power to unravel sonic details and present all elements in a natural balance. Bert writes: “Homogeneity is theread more >
Journalist Pu Dong of Hong Kong printed magazine Audiotechnique was overwhelmed by the LS1be performance. He tries to find words, gets poetic and writes that “he will forget the taste of meat for three months”, which refers to the famous Book 7 of the Analects of Confucius, in which Confucius wrote that he forgot theread more >
Journalist Kwok-yan of the Hong Kong online magazine Fever Sound did a very thorough Youtube review of the MU1. English subtitles have just become available so now the western world can also enjoy this very interesting review. He starts with a great statement: “The MU1 is a music streamer that may appear very simple, butread more >
