Here we go again. For the Spanish Hifi magazine Revista On Off, Josep Armengol reviewed the LS1 plus LS1s subs. He writes:
“The transparency of the sound is tremendous. One could really think that you have the artists in front of you. Grimm’s mission to eliminate the sound of the system and present just the original recording seems totally true. At the same time, if the system is fed with less than optimal recordings, the sound does not become unpleasant, which is often a problem with other studio monitors that can be too analytic.”
“The sub woofer is very well integrated, I even touched them to see if they were working. This is of course the ideal: that subwoofers perform their duty unnoticed. The set offers a well defined low end, rhythmic and deep, never exaggerated, in fact for some rock discs I added a dB of low end in the LS1 software just for fun.”
“The magnificent Grimm LS1 boxes always seem to get the best out of a recording and let you enjoy the spirit of the music, but in a very different manner than – for example – a traditional system with valves, with a romantic sound. But even so you end up listening for long hours because you don’t feel any sign of fatigue. And along the way you discover details in discs that you thought you knew in depth. Noises from the studio, sheet music moving, fingers on instruments, whispers … impressive how the Grimm’s unveil ‘everything’.”
