![]() ![]() ![]() Excuse me for not going into detail on this perception, as I’ve rambled on about this more than enough in my other Music Server reviews.Īnyway, in his quest to find the ideal Music Server, the friend auditioned the best servers and streamers that are currently available and since I had already been doing the same thing for over a decade, we decided to join forces and compare the best of the best. Overall, though, there is something to CD playback that is less mechanical and stilted than any music server or streamer replay. To be fair, if the CD player is of insufficient quality, it can also be the other way around, in many aspects, at least. We both feel that computer-based audio has made large strides but, somehow, still lags behind a good CD player in certain aspects. Like me, he had a hard time finding the ideal Music Server to work alongside his treasured CD player. It wasn’t until a close friend and fellow audio reviewer obtained a MU1 for his review reference system that I really took notice. Up until this point, I’ll be honest and admit that I thought it was mostly hype, possibly even more so when Ben proclaimed the MU1 to be The One server worthy to sell your CD player for. While I was quite impressed with the performance of the MU1+LS1 system performance, it was impossible to pin down how much of this was attributable to the MU1. Later, I would hear the MU1 in the role envisioned by the design team, along with the LS1 speakers during one of the last demos at Garmt and Bjorn’s Beter Beeld & Geluid showroom before it closed down. Indeed, it was through one of Ben’s demos at the Listening Matters showroom that I first laid eyes on the MU1, at that time combined with Zanden amplification and Kroma Audio loudspeakers. This is in no small amount thanks to the efforts of Ben van Leliveld who was positively raving about the product on every occasion and during every demo that he hosted. Together with a team of software-, electrical-, and mechanical engineers, they produce audio equipment that is refreshingly different while yielding high praise the world over.īeing Dutch myself, I can’t help but feel a little proud:-) MU1 Backdropĭesigned to complement the Grimm Audio LS1 loudspeaker system, the MU1 has sort of inadvertently taken the audio world by storm. The two key figures are Eelco Grimm and Guido Tent, respectively Creative Director and Technical Director of Grimm Audio. Grimm Audioįounded in 2004 and based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Grimm Audio aims to use the collective forces of the greatest audio minds and to this day, all Grimm Audio products carry the joint insight of well-known scientists in the fields of audio electronics, acoustics, and physics. Well, of course, that’s when a new server entered my premises and totally surprised me. Other storage sizes only on special requestĪfter the Olive 04HD, the AudioAanZee Ultra Flow, Reference Flow, and Reference Flow MkII, the 432 EVO, the Aurender S10 and N10, the Pink Faun 2.16x, the Meridian Sooloos MC200, MD600, MS600, and 818, the Melco N1A/2 and N1ZH/2, the Euphony Buggy/Zotac, the Antipodes DX2, DS, EX, CX, and K50 Music Servers, and twice as many Streamers/Network Players, not to mention various server software and playback applications that I have tried throughout the years, I figured that, by now, surely, there’d be no more large surprises for me. Second Review Sample Serial 13-0.003.037 Retail price including VAT:Īvailable SSD storage: 2 TB (€350) / 8 TB (€950) Initial Review Sample Serial 13-0.002.016 ![]() Review organized by Marc Loubeau / Prestige Audio Diffusion ![]()
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