Grimm MU2 Experience

There is another forum that starts with audio and ends with style that has an extensive thread on the Grimm. 

I wish my wife loved the big knob a little more often.

Kyle and Stan

Go Fund Yourself 

South Park Solicitor 

@awise1961 

If a one-box solution appeals to you and you have the budget I would throw Playback Designs into that list 

@mitch2 

Alpha Audio reviewed it some time ago, and in the video I recall they said there was no disadvantage using the MU2 pre vs. their Pass Labs XP-12

Of course being from the same homeland they are biased 

MU2

 Eelco Grimm's 10 hi-fi myths busted: 

https://darko.audio/2025/01/podcast-10-hi-fi-myths-busted-by-eelco-grimm/

@soix

..but that this level I’d want everything separate.

Excellent down to earth discussion regarding this in "myth" #10 from the link I posted above. Starts around time 1:29

@carlsbad2 

If you haven't seen it yet the Polish reviewer Marek had a few words to say comparing his hopped up computer with JCat bits Roon core and his Lampi Pacific 2 to the MU2:

https://hifiknights.com/reviews/sources/grimm-audio-mu-2/

@wsrrsw 

If a Grimm MU1 and Weiss 501 is your "B" system life is good. 

You have an exceptional DAC...you should get your hands on an MU1 or a Taiko or an Antipodes to really hear what your specific dac is capable of. 

Sounds like the combo that @tonywinga has put together. Haven’t seen a post from him lately though, and typing that didn't that didn’t show his name as one of the options in the drop down list (?) He did post reviews of both of those units (Helene and K50) in the review section. 

@ghasley thanks for the input. 

The Grimm gear does something to the incoming ethernet feed....something positive, something that rejects the unwanted....it seem agnostic to those tweaks. Believe me or don’t believe me but none of that stuff is necessary.

Not the first time I have read that. It certainly is appealing. How do you find the pre section compared to a separate pre- have you compared it to others? 

Assuming each track is an average length of 4 minutes, and you listened to your hifi for 8 hours every day, it would take over 2 years before a track was repeated. If most of these tracks are classical you could easily double this. I won't indicate my opinion on this.