Jaap Veenstra of the Dutch online magazine Alpha Audio visited our factory and did a long video interview (in English) with PW1 designer Peter van Willenswaard. Together they dove into Peter’s history of designing phono preamplifiers and the PW1 in particular. In his thoughtful and eloquent way, Peter leads you into his world, the worldread more >
The US online ‘glossy’ Audio Key Reviews has the premiere PW1 phono stage review. Andre Marc enjoyed himself tremendously, stepping into a genuine time machine with his favorite vinyl. The PW1 received the “Gold Keynote Award” and is their new reference phono stage. Andre’s text is a great pleasure to read, so we encourage youread more >
The French magazine Vinyle & Audio is well known for publishing a balanced mix of music album and audio equipment reviews. Their author Jean Razzaroli put the MU1 to test and was highly impressed. “The Grimm Audio MU1 sounds incredibly transparent and resolving. It is able to extract more details than most other streamers thatread more >
The premier French High End Audio magazine Haute Fidélité did a review of the MU2. Author Bruno Castelluzzo was highly impressed by its functionality and sound quality. He offered it full marks on sound quality, plus the “Haute Fidélité Réference” award! Below some translated excerpts from his poetic reflections on the MU2’s sound quality. “Theread more >
Last year, the Dutch audiophile classical music label TRPTK selected a hybrid setup of LS1be and LS1a loudspeakers for their surround mixing and mastering studio. They are extremely happy with the system (“you really hear everything on these things, I have to start all over again…”). TRPTK uses Steinberg software for their mixing and masteringread more >
Since Eelco enjoyed recording the MU2 podcast with John Darko so much, he promised to return soon and discuss more general audio topics. Darko’s ’10 myths’ series appeared to be the perfect stage for that. In this episode Eelco states that so called myths are often attempts to simplify complex matter, in other words “blanketread more >
The online Audiophile magazine Stereo Times has given the MU2 their “Most Wanted Components Award” of 2024 in the “Digital, DACs & Music servers” category. We are impressed by the jury report of John Hoffman: “The MU2 is an all-in-one digital front end. It has an incredibly quiet background and a deep, wide, layered soundstageread more >
This year has been wonderful for us. We received great enthusiasm for our products from journalists and customers alike. The first customers of the PW1 are now among them, their stories are truly amazing. So we will enter two well deserved weeks of holidays with a big smile. We wish everybody a wonderful time withread more >
In this last video from our 20 year anniversary party, Eelco Grimm looks back on two decades of groundbreaking work with a unique team of people. And he claims that in fact the history of Grimm Audio goes back much further, to 40 years ago when he met Guido Tent and Peter van Willenswaard forread more >
We are excited to introduce our latest sibling to you: the PW1 phono preamplifier. It is the perfect companion for a MU2, an LS1, or any other audio system of your choice. And its sound quality can be called unique by all measures. Grimm Audio’s co-founder Peter van Willenswaard was the chief designer of theread more >
This is a story about the first phono preamp of Grimm Audio, the PW1. I have designed quite a few phono preamps in my time, between 10 and 20 I guess, and using all types of technology: transistors, fets and tubes. I also analyzed and modified three or four times that number of commercial phonosread more >
At the Dutch Audio Event in October, mastering engineer and content creator Sander van der Heide recorded live podcasts in a small studio next to the entry. Eelco Grimm was one of the guests and his interview is published as second in the row. He enjoyed himself a lot, talking partly about the history ofread more >
