Blog-zine
High End Munich, May 9th-12th in room E216, will become a remarkable event for us. First of all we will celebrate 20 years of Grimm Audio! And to celebrate this we will present no less than two new products… The PW1 is a unique phono preamplifier from Grimm Audio’s co-founder and preamp specialist Peter van Willenswaard. And for the new LS1c with revolutionary carbon tweeter virtually all elements of the LS1 platform have been renewed.read more >
After his rave review in January, K.E. Heartsong is still so enthusiastic about the MU2 that he spent an update article on it in his latest Audio Key Reviews online magazine. His main topic of the text is a reflection on the retail prices in ultra high end audio and how he considers the MU2read more >
After last year’s Munich High End show, journalist Joël Chevassus of the French online Audiophile Magazine offered the system we used to introduce the MU2 a “best sound of show” award. In his latest edition he reviewed the MU2 and his high expectations were fully satisfied. Joël offered the MU2 his ‘Supreme Award’, “because ofread more >
Eelco Grimm has always had a fascination for how the human brain works, both from a psychological and a philosophical point of view. A scientific paper that showed how music reduces cognitive dissonance inspired him to write a deep essay on human consciousness. The writing took a few years and it’s become a text full of mental vistas. A long read to cherish.read more >
Grimm Audio exhibits at the Axpona High End Audio Show in Chicago, April 12-14. In suite 1530 you will hear our MU2 Streaming DAC / Preamplifier, which is receiving awards from reviewers every week now. The MU2 will be showcased along with the brand new Zellaton Emotion EVO loudspeakers, making their world wide demo debut.read more >
Yesterday we proudly presented our new “SB2” subwoofer on the social media. Many people checked the date and weren’t fooled. But the question remained: what on earth is this sub? Our R&D engineer Floris Schropp found this Intersonic Servodrive SDL-5 subwoofer on a marketplace. It is a unique subwoofer design from the early 80’s byread more >
Michael Lavorgna of online audiophile magazine Twittering Machines reviewed our MU2 and was totally blown away. He checked it in various setups and concluded that this was the best sounding digital source he ever heard. We could not resist to copy some excerpts below, but please read his full review here. “If you want toread more >
Journalist Philipp Schneckenburger of the German online Lite Magazin reviews the MU2 and gets excited. He offers it ‘100 out of 100’ points for both Sound and Use… Philipp first goes into detail about the virtues of Roon Labs’ user interface, that we also like a lot. And then he starts writing about the MU2’sread more >
We are delighted to see that no less than three Canadian dealers will present our products at the main hifi audio show of Canada, the Montreal Audiofest. If you attend the show between March 22nd and 24th, make sure to visit the exhibits of our dealers. Lemay Audio is in suite 2018. Francois Lemay willread more >
We released firmware v1.5.8 for the MU1, plus a small bug fix v1.5.9. Like with the recent MU2 update, this new firmware solves an important issue that occured with Roon’s latest version (build 1365) when a user needed to reset the database. It offers a few other bug fixes too, so all users are recommendedread more >
The Czech online audio magazine Hi-fi Voice published a long MU2 review. Thanks to modern translation services everybody can enjoy the great story of Daniel Březina. We offer you his concluding paragraph below. “The Grimm Audio MU2 is one of the most authentic yet least technical devices we’ve ever had. (…) It doesn’t show anyread more >
