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 >
Grimm Audio aspires to making the full chain from microphone to listener more transparent. Sometimes we come across a music project that resonates with that same wish and the UNIFONY project by Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger is a good example. Their idea was “to see if they could come towards a deeper understanding ofread more >
Facebook friends of Grimm Audio and people who spotted our advertisements will not have missed the remarkable ‘magical’ photography that we use for some time now. Soon we will dedicate a blog to a ‘behind the scenes’ story of the epic photo shoot of these pictures. But first we wanted to put a spot lightread more >
Last month we posted a blog about the initiative by the Dutch label TRPTK to add a ‘Buy this artist a coffee’ button to their artists’ web pages. The idea was to offer a relieve to musicians who lost most of their income because all concerts are cancelled to help defeat Covid-19. This button remindedread more >
Like the rest of the world, The Netherlands has halted abruptily to conquer the Corona Covid-19 virus outbreak. Grimm Audio fortunately is still in full operation. Our facility is large enough for all personnel to respect the 1.5m distance that everyone has to maintain and if anyone has the slightest hint of not feeling wellread more >
Dutch classical music record label Channel Classics celebrates its 30 year anniversary with a present to all members of the English leading classical music magazine Gramophone. With this month’s edition they all receive an SACD of 13 tracks that were personally selected from Channel Classics’ vast catalog by Gramophone’s editor in chief James Jolly. Manyread more >
Like most countries of the world, The Netherlands is hit heavily by the Corona Covid-19 virus. This also affects our beloved music world strongly. Last Friday all concerts were cancelled for at least three weeks in our country, but if we follow the development of the pandemic, it is likely that this situation will lastread more >
A longread blog by Theodoor Borger. Foreword by Eelco Grimm: In 2015 Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger started collaborating under the moniker UNIFONY. The concept of this project is to invite guest musicians and together search for the pure essence of music. Wandering off the beaten track and rediscover purity by experimenting. Composing through carefullyread more >
Nothing like great feedback from a happy customer. Please enjoy the comment and picture of Thomas Pierburg from Kuala Lumpur who owns a MU1 and LS1be set: “The sound together with the LS1‘s is magical, the integraton with Tidal and Roon works seamlessly. Also the optical cable connection with the beamer works fine. I likeread more >
World famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann enjoys his LS1 system for some years now and recently decided to upgrade the set to LS1be level. He sent us the following wonderful letter of commendation after he received the set, plus a great picture too. We feel very honored! “When I listen to edit files of my recordings,read more >
Spencer Ramzel of Blackbuck Recording Haus, South Texas, wrote to us: “I’ve had only a few days with the unit. There seems to be an immediate improvement of the sound. Bottom end and the phase correlation between the kick drum tracks and other bass tracks is improved. The higher frequency range (cymbals and vocal track)read more >
“I like to thank you for making such excellent cable. After reading about TPR on your website, I first tried the wire as interconnecting cables between my D/A converter and power amplifier. I was surprised at how much the sound improved. I next purchased several microphone cables for the remote recording I do of classical and jazzread more >
