We are blown away by the review that K.E. Heartsong made for his beautiful online magazine Audio Key Reviews. Never before did someone write such soulful text about a product of ours. We were deeply touched and could not resist sharing some paragraphs with you. Enjoy…
“I spoke of the Grimm MU1 Streamer being at the forefront of digital streaming technology, and there it remains. The Grimm Audio MU2 Streaming DAC, however, is at the cutting edge, synergistically, of both digital streaming technology and Digital to Analog Conversion (DAC) technology. This is no small feat.
Upon placing the MU2 in the system and running a check to see that all was well before run-in, I was forced to take a seat and just listen. Straight out of the box and still bearing the chill of a Minnesota winter, and just off a FedEx “freezer truck”, the Grimm Audio MU2 unfolded or stretched its digital/streaming muscles and put on a performance that to date has no peer.
(…) Once the MU2 had worked out for several weeks in preparation for this review, its performance would require, at the very least, new descriptors to give some idea of its performance and its staggering abilities relative to all others.
(…) The MU2’s transparency, its resolution, its ability to excavate and deliver all required detail from stream after stream was not simply a matter of lifting veils. No, that would be an understatement relative to the MU2. What it did, in terms of transparency, resolution, and detail retrieval, figuratively speaking, was to completely remove a wall-sized, well-insulated, triple-paned window from an adjacent concert hall. Can you say new information? Well, stream after stream of music with which I have had decades-long relationships was rendered as virtually new and unexplored.
(…) after hearing some of the priciest digital stacks, where you get so little for so much, I am afraid for their comparison to the Grimm Audio MU2, where you get so much for so little. Astounding!
Yet the MU2 not only commands your attention via its outstanding technical prowess, but it grabs your heart as well, with a profound and immersive musicality that will find your current reference digital front-ends dismissed entirely. Soon after, this reviewer contemplates what will need to move to accommodate this one-box assault on the state-of-the-art.
I had thought for a long time that what rendered outstanding transparency, resolution, and detail would render left-brain nirvana, while leaving the right brain emotionally comatose. The Grimm Audio MU2 brings a synergistic balance that provides nirvana all the way around, with nary a competitor in sight to date.
“Music with which I have had decades-long relationships was rendered as virtually new and unexplored.“
K.E Heartsong, Audio Key Reviews
(…) This one-box epiphany called the Grimm Audio MU2, in this reviewer’s opinion will move all systems, into which it is configured to the front of the streaming/rendering/playback class. (…) The Grimm Audio MU2 is a breakaway DIAMOND AWARD WINNER and a BREAKTHROUGH product as well. It will no doubt amass additional awards as the November Best of The Year 2024 issue makes its debut. No doubt. Bravo!”
Please read the full review at the AKR website, it is soul-stirring. The way that K.E. Heartsong describes his deeply felt emotions when listening to various of his long term favorite tracks is a must read.
