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 >
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 >
A couple of weeks ago I had a deep insight about why high quality audio offers listeners such a compelling experience. It goes like this: “Since man is mortal, his deepest desire is immortality. As a result, to witness an illusion of immortality can evoke a deep emotion of consolation. Written language helped mankind aread more >
Audio Key Reviews posted a long interview with Eelco Grimm on their website (after publishing part 1 in the november issue of their online magazine). This new version offers all the questions, plus some private pictures of Eelco’s life. AKR has a very personal approach to interviews and Eelco embraced the chance to reflect onread more >
In their November issue the online magazine AudioKeyREVIEWS! offers the MU1 no less than 2 awards! It receives the “Best of the year 2022 Award” and the prestigious “Editor’s Choice Award”. We are very impressed with these extraordinary decorations. They add up to the already stunning Diamond Award that AKR offered the MU1 in theirread more >
At the 152nd AES convention in The Hague, Eelco Grimm was granted the AES Fellowship Award. This award is given to an AES member “who has rendered conspicuous service or is recognized to have made a valuable contribution to the advancement in or dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of itsread more >
The Dutch online magazine Alpha Audio did an unusual live stream on Sunday Feb 27th. In collaboration with Artone Studio in Haarlem, a live recording was made of singer songwriter Tim Knol, running both a completely analog (vinyl!) recording chain and a completely digital recording chain in parallel. For the analog part, a direct-to-disc lacquerread more >
The year 2020 is coming to an end and with it the anniversary year of Channel Classics. This blog is therefore the last in my “Favorites” series. If favorite means that you listen to it often, then one album should certainly not be missing from my list: Philip Glass, Metamorphosis & The Hours by harpistread more >
Sunday November 29th Channel Classics celebrated its official 30th anniversary with a great concert by a selection of their star artists in the Frits Philips hall in Eindhoven. It came as a wonderful surprise that the long-planned concert could take place at all. The Covid-19 disaster had a firm grip on this festive event, butread more >
Many people noted the distinctive photography we use in our “Magical Realism” advertisement campaign. In this blog I love to tell you about the wonderful story behind this production. Some time ago we decided to create remarkable pictures for an advertisement campaign that should depict the magical quality of our products. We realized that forread more >
In my ‘Favorites’ blog of last month I wrote about my Sonology studies. Many of my hardcore electronic music teachers did not care much for ‘romantic’ 19th century music, but without exception they admired Johann Sebastian Bach. And rightly so, of course. Bach is an immeasurably large musical monument. He has been in my liferead more >
