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 >
In this “Favorites” blog I pick up the thread of my personal history. After three years of electronics studies and discovering high-end audio through the renowned magazine Audio & Techniek (see this video interview with Jaap Veenstra) I went to study at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. I followed courses Music Registration and Sonologyread more >
Classical music has always been part of my life. My mother played piano and my father had various sizes of recorders. In my teenage years I also played piano and studied faithfully, although in hindsight my motivation would have been greater had I chosen an ensemble instrument. Although I mainly played classical pieces, the rawread more >
Today Thursday May 21st, in stunningly beautiful weather, we would be celebrating 30 years of Channel Classics with a vibrant garden party at Jared Sacks’ gorgeous home at the river Waal in the Netherlands. As a result of COVID-19, this celebration with music performed by Channel Artists surrounded by industry contacts and friends has obviouslyread more >
