The New Zealand hifi professional Neil Young writes about his personal audio journey in the beautiful Audio Satori blog. Our New Zealand distributor Stephen Seque of Soul to Sole Audio lent him a PW1 for review and he surely enjoyed himself with it… “The first notes through the PW1 confirmed its character: utterly silent background,read more >
November 14-16 the Capital Audiofest will be held. In Washington DC’s premier high-end audio festival Grimm Audio products will be on demo in no less than 11 rooms! First of all you are welcome to visit Room 755 where our sales director North America John-Paul Lizars presents the LS1c and MU1 with his famous collectionread more >
Vinyl is great! Or better: Vinyl can be great. But only if you calibrated your turntable with utmost care and dedication. This story is to help you get there. Don’t expect a 30 page manual, there are better ways these days now that we have Youtube (and DVDs). I’ll get to that in the end of thisread more >
Eelco Grimm teams up with Polish distributor AudioFast at the famous Audio Video Show in Warsaw October 24-26. For those not familiar with this show: with 188 exhibition rooms in 3 venues it is the second largest highend audio show in the world. Needless to say you can enjoy demos from virtually all highend audioread more >
The noble Ken Kessler reviewed our PW1 for Hi-fi News in the UK. He became heavily impressed by what he called the “chameleon” qualities of the PW1, meaning that it could expose both a tube and solid state character, whichever suited the music most. We are very honoured that Ken offered the PW1 the ‘Hi-firead more >
Analog Planet let two editors test the PW1 in their systems, Ken Micallef and Mike Mettler. They enjoyed themselves a lot with new and vintage vinyl and shared a real enthusiasm for the PW1. Read the full article here, and a few excerpts below. “Unerring transparency, fine dimensionality, and a solid balance between tonal colorread more >
Jürgen Schröder of the well known German online audiophile magazine Lowbeats published a great review of the PW1. He took the PW1 to a ‘vinyl paradise’ shop to compare it with three other phono preamplifiers on four different cartridges. And he was pleasantly surprised… “Although the Grimm Audio PW1 was the most affordable (…if oneread more >
UK’s wonderful Hi-Fi music gear webzine ‘The Ear’ published a great review of the PW1. Editor Jason Kennedy tried various cartridges with lots of LP’s and all of them topped his prior experience. We are delighted that he offered the PW1 the ‘Editor’s Award’ of The Ear. We copy some excerpts for you below, butread more >
Jonas Bednarz, editor of the German online publication Lite Magazin, was captivated by the qualities of the PW1, especially its abilities to connect a listener to the music. Because the PW1 also excelled in design and usability it was granted Lite Magazine’s “100 / 100 Reference Class” accolade! Jonas’ text reads like a long speechread more >
The Dutch online hifi magazine Alpha Audio checked out the PW1 phono stage. Jaap Veenstra writes that they rarely spent so much time on a review. The reason: “we simply couldn’t stop listening to music!”. His conclusion is clear: “Well… what else can we say, except that this phono pre-amp is extremely addictive. You justread more >
