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- Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 April 2022 01 April 2022
Grimm Audio MU1 Digital Music Player
Grimm Audio was founded in 2004 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the original home of Philips. Grimm Audio was started by Eelco Grimm with Guido Tent, Bruno Putzeys and Peter van Willenswaard. Bruno Putzeys departed to concentrate on Class-D amplification, and Peter van Willenswaard has since retired. Grimm Audio’s first product was the AD1, a DSD64 output A/D convertor designed and developed for the pro-audio industry. In 2010, ‘Grimm’ diversified and embraced the home consumer market when it introduced the LS1 digital active speaker system. In late 2019 Grimm launched the MU1 music server/player which can directly connect to the LS1 to create an elegant music system. Here, we’re examining the MU1 as a high-end standalone digital music player.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 15 March 2022 15 March 2022
AudioQuest William Tell ZERO Loudspeaker Cables
In general, audio signal transmission suffers from the tyranny of multiple individual fundamentals and even varied combinations of one-and-all. The tri-axis of impedance, resistance and capacitance form the elementary foundation for the conductors themselves, be it copper, silver, gold or cocktail combinations. Add the effects of the components’ own electrical parameters, the environmental effects of interference and, down the line, the loudspeaker’s own inherent demands and you have a whole lot of variables which the signal conduit must address, adapt and comply to. Permutations of these factors are the reasons why cables can sound different from one system context to another. When it comes to signal delivery, AudioQuest knows its LCRs. The company offers a profound level of choice covering every possible scenario. Do the upmarket William Tell ZERO loudspeaker cables sling the signal-arrow straight to the heart of the music?
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 07 March 2022 07 March 2022
Grimm Audio’s MU1 Digital Player Now Available in Australia
The MU1 Digital Player from Grimm Audio has been receiving global acclaim for its superb sonics and high level of build quality. Now for the first time, the company’s breakthrough product is available in this country.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
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- Published: 07 March 2022 07 March 2022
Wilson Audio Launches Lōkē Subwoofer
The new Lōkē high-end subwoofer system is introduced and aims at providing full bass support to either Wilson Audio’s smaller loudspeaker designs or for low-end augmentation to the company’s full-range systems.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 04 March 2022 04 March 2022
Steinway Lyngdorf Announces New Model A Loudspeakers
The audio venture and collaboration between legendary piano maker and respected high-end audio specialist continues with Steinway Lyngdorf’s newly-released Model A floorstanding loudspeaker system.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 March 2022 01 March 2022
At the Crossroads of Audio – HeyNow Hi-Fi
It may be a relatively new player on Melbourne’s audio specialist landscape but HeyNow Hi-Fi sprouted from an inspired kernel to conceptual genesis. Steadily, and in a rather short time, the store has matured into a commanding force offering a veritable kaleidoscopic destination for some of the world’s best Hi-Fi.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 01 March 2022 01 March 2022
Vermouth Audio Studio Monitor Loudspeakers
A few years ago, for another publication, I reviewed a pair of studio monitor speakers which bridged the divide between the professional and consumer spaces. This super-accurate speaker from Australian company Grover Notting managed to provide both a forensic tool for the studio and a musically involving sound capable of pleasing the discerning audiophile. Much time has passed since that delightful encounter. Now, I find myself once again assessing a loudspeaker design with the balance to adeptly surf the swells between the studio and the home.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 22 February 2022 22 February 2022
dCS Apex – A New High Point
Digital specialist dCS’s unique and highly acclaimed digital-to-analogue conversion system now receives a next-level re-engineering in the company’s new ‘Ring DAC APEX’.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 18 February 2022 18 February 2022
KEF’s Upper Echelons Receive Meta Treatment
Following the success and evident improvement of the Meta version of the company’s LS50 loudspeakers, KEF has announced it has expanded the Meta-verse with improvements to the upmarket Blade and Reference series.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 16 February 2022 16 February 2022
New Marantz MODEL 40n Integrated Amplifier Unveiled
The new MODEL 40n amplifier is a showcase of Marantz’s latest amplification circuit design and digital technologies combined with the company’s stylish aesthetic language.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 15 February 2022 15 February 2022
Duntech Audio Senator Loudspeakers
Many, many moons ago – I’m talking a full lunar-solar cycle… oh, how time slips by – an Australian loudspeaker singularity big-banged with unprecedented disruptive force. Duntech Audio emerged in the last quarter of the previous century with a line of speakers soon to be widely hailed as exemplars of transducer accuracy and peerless engineering. I wanted them. Any model. Badly. Alas, out of my reach was the majestic Sovereign, a design which even today is lauded as one of the world’s best, bar none. In fact, many of the world’s finest recording and mastering studios still employ Sovereign speakers as the main monitors of choice. Today, the Senator loudspeakers, an entirely new design following Duntech Audio ideologies, is a mid-point beacon by which the revitalised company, once again, partakes in the competitive waters of the high-end audio seascape.
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- Published: 10 February 2022 10 February 2022
Western Electric Launches New 91E Integrated Amplifier
Iconic valve specialist Western Electric has announced a new strikingly-styled high-end integrated amplifier, the 91E, employing the time-honoured and much-revered 300B vacuum tube.
