Erik Zobler reviewed our CC1 and became very enthusiastic: “The CC1 is a brilliantly designed piece of equipment. Every piece of gear that I plugged into it sounded better and more natural. (…)” “When I closed my eyes and told myself to forget about all the perceived sonic differences and just pick the clock thatread more >
In their March issue, German magazin Studio Magazin dedicates 6 pages to a review of our complete loudness suite: LevelView, LevelNorm and LevelOne. They were particularly charmed by LevelView’s rainbow meter: “Much more than a single loudness figure, the rainbow meter invites to mix dynamically.” Read about LevelView >read more >
At SA-CD.net a new SACD from Channel Classics was discussed. Tom Caulfield, project manager for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote: “I have most of the Channel Amsterdam Sinfonietta SACDs, and appreciate them not only for their musicianship, but for how they sound. They all have a richness, level of realism, and sonic detail that isread more >
Another enthusiastic review for the CC1, this time with pro gear in a hi-fi setting. Reinhold Martin of the German Hifi Statement online magazine tests the CC1 with a DAD AX24 converter and a Weiss AFI digital interface. He writes: “Absolutely indispensible is the Dutch master clock from Grimm Audio. Throughout even the most turbulentread more >
German EinsNull magazin reviewed the LS1 and digged really deep into all details. They were stunned by the LS1’s performance. Editor in chief Christian Rechenbach wrote: “This is probably the most ‘correct’ loudspeaker I’ve ever laid ears on. The combined honesty, neutrality and pleasing musicality is at a level that I haven’t come across before.”read more >
Ronald Prent, creative director of Wisseloord Studios, was so impressed by our TPM cable that the suggestion by Eelco Grimm to develop an affordable model with similar attributes excited him immediately. In March 2011 Ronald Prent reports: “When I heard Grimm TPM, I was amazed by the unbelievably accurate phantom center. It sat rock solidread more >
“Did Grimm Audio reinvent the loudspeaker?” heads the enthusiastic article by Bert Oling of Hi-fi Video Test. Bert explores numerous technical features of the LS1 design and writes in great detail about the sound. He notes aspects like “a truthfull image size at all kinds of playback levels”, “a very neutral sound colour, even off-axis”,read more >
We received an email from LS1 customer Wessel Oltheten. “I have to let you know that yesterday I mixed a large project on the LS1’s (drums, acoustic base, grand piano, flugel horn, clarinet, alt sax, tenor sax, two violins, two cellists and a singer, with quite dense scores). When I listen to the result onread more >
More LS1 admiration! Reviewer Wessel Oltheten of the Dutch Pro Audio & Video magazine wrote in their November issue: “I could observe time related aspects of the sound that I never heard on other monitors. For example I heard the individual reflections of a slap-back echo. And I heard the action of a compressor: itsread more >
Germany’s main professional audio magazine Studio Magazin gave the LS1 an ‘A plus’ in their very positive review. To cite author Fritz Fey: “After 30 years of editorship I thought I ran out of superlatives. ‘Fairylike’ however never was among them but I could not find a better wording to describe a studio monitor thatread more >
Grimm Audio’s LS1 is an unusual loudspeaker. Its wide but shallow cabinet is the direct opposite of nearly all contemporary loudspeakers and the DSP filter is mainly IIR based in spite of the availability of cheap DSP. Why? This white paper argues that all choices derive from basic acoustics, signal theory and psychoacoustics.read more >
