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 >
We are proud to let you know that yet another enthusiastic review of the MU1 is published. Joachim Pfeiffer of the German Hifi & Musik Journal printed magazine gave it ‘5 stars’! We took pleasure in translating part of his story to English: “Most audio components on this globe are almost self-explanatory: a quick lookread more >
Alpha Audio published an overview of ‘defining gear of the 2010-2020 era’. Under the category “loudspeakers” Yung Lie writes: “Active speakers were reserved for the studio world until 2010. We have seen the active speaker systems slowly gain ground this decade. Surprisingly, in the high end segment there are many Dutch companies: Kii, dutch &read more >
The Dutch online magazine Hifi.nl has published part 1 of their MU1 review. Author René van Es is impressed: “Now it is finally time to enjoy music with just the MU1 as an oversampling music player with storage, server and endpoint in one box, as it was intended. For example, when playing a live recordingread more >
Our The Hague dealer Chattelin Audio Systems has changed its name to Listening Matters and celebrated this event with a great party on December 28th. “Audioafficionado” Bart Lambert wrote an enthusiastic report with pictures about his experience with the MU1 at this show. Some quotes: “First track came from the album “John Rutter Requiem –read more >
