Stephen Seque of Soul to Sole Audio has been the Grimm Audio Distributor in New Zealand for a few years. He is one of the most cheerful audio enthusiasts we ever met and a great salesman too. Since he also manufactures beautiful hifi furniture, he knows both sides of the business. We are delighted toread more >
On October 10 and 11 the wonderful Dutch Audio Event returns to our hometown Veldhoven. We will put the spotlight on our new mono-block PA1 amplifiers in room 116. In the past weeks the PA1 went on a dealer tour throughout the country and all dealers, press and other attendees were heavily impressed. Now it’sread more >
Christiaan Punter of Hifi Advice had the privilege of doing the first ‘extensive listening period’ PA1 review. The amplifiers found their place in his setup and since he felt no reason to switch back to his reference amplifiers, they just stayed there for a few weeks. And then it happened. At the end of theread more >
Jaap Veenstra of Alpha Audio checked out the PA1 monoblock amps in a high performance audio system. And he became very happy of what he heard, even offering it their ‘Alpha Approved’ award! “What’s also striking is the coherence in timbre across the entire spectrum. The bass blends seamlessly with the midrange and treble, evenread more >
In the international forum Audiophilestyle, ‘DuckToller’ just published a wonderful 3-part story about his experience when visiting our room at the Vienna High End show last June where we introduced the PA1 monoblock amplifiers with our MU2 streamer DAC and a ‘study model’ passive loudspeaker. Eelco Grimm played ‘No Woman No Cry’ of Bob Marleyread more >
September 12-13 the StereoNET UK Hi-Fi & AV Expo is held in London at the Radisson Red Convention Center and Hotel at Heathrow airport. Grimm Audio exhibits in Room Atlantis 2 and Eelco Grimm will be present to support UK distributor Andy Baker of Sound Design Distribution. We expect our large room to be filledread more >
Robert Harley, editor in chief of The Absolute Sound, did an extensive interview with Eelco Grimm about many aspects of the Grimm Audio products and the philosophy behind them. It’s now published online, so everyone can enjoy Eelco’s reflection on topics such as stereo playback, acoustics, passive versus active loudspeakers, DSP, distortion, and a holisticread more >
In Stereophile’s Brilliant Corners #41, Alex Halberstadt writes about the time he lived with the MU2 in his system. He starts by thanking us for striving for perfection in stead of accepting “good enough” philosophies. And then he talks about all the great hours of music listening he enjoyed, highlighting many records. His pieces areread more >
We are very happy to let you know that this week we are building the first batch of PA1’s. So far we only had a couple of prototypes, now it starts to become reality! Comments from the first dealers who auditioned the PA1 prototypes are coming in. Without exception they are totally overwhelmed by theirread more >
The Hans Beekhuyzen Channel, internationally known on Youtube, had the privilege of publishing the first review of our new PA1 mono block power amplifiers. Hans talks about the PA1’s functionality and the technique under the hood and then clearly outlines his opinion on the sound quality: “The stereo image is wide and deep. Spaces betweenread more >
JPLAY is an audiophile oriented music playback and control app for iOS and MacOS. With today’s JPLAY v1.4.3 update a full integration of the app with our MU1 and MU2 streamers is achieved. The MU1 and MU2’s UPnP interface supports ‘UPnP Eventing’ and JPLAY embraces this method in their latest release. As a result theread more >
In new firmware for the MU1 and MU2 we offer a small but worthwhile improvement of the DSD filtering sound quality in the MU2 and of the PCM and DSD filtering in the MU1. We also addressed a couple of robustness issues that could happen in rare use cases, among others a spurious indicated coefficientread more >
