Description

The LS1 playback system is Grimm Audio’s solid performer. It excels both as a two-way and as a three-way loudspeaker. Loved by many for its supreme level of performance in music reproduction, it is the benchmark for audio quality.

•  Magnesium Seas woofer 
• Seas DXT tweeter 
• Optimized NCore amplifiers 
• Heavy footplate 
• Bamboo or lacquer finish 
• Optional Nano legs version
• unidirectional down to 250 Hz
• DSP controlled frequency curve
• well-behaved off-axis response
• digital and analog audio inputs
• filtered analog subwoofer output
• fail-safe due to excursion and thermal limiter
• remote control of volume and settings
• super low distortion NCore class D power amps
• audiophile quality Seas drivers
• 5 year limited warranty

Note: Legs available in black or brown and standard “couch” height or “high” studio chair listening height. 4 weeks lead time

A good monitor combines a high degree of accuracy with untrammeled musicality. There aren’t many of those around – common wisdom has it that you can have one or the other but never both. The LS1 is the first monitor to prove conventional wisdom wrong.

By integrating top-quality digital signal processing, converters, and amplifiers in one of the speakers’ legs, Grimm Audio were able to apply technical strategies no one had used before. As a consequence, the LS1 is not just a loudspeaker but a complete audio system that only needs an analog or digital line source to perform.

True accuracy is about getting all the bits in the right place: not losing anything, not adding anything either. The LS1 offers this accuracy, reproducing a truly musical recording accurately, with all beauty intact. At the same time, the LS1 will also reproduce any imperfection, giving you all the information you need to get it right. These qualities make the LS1 an ideal monitor for both mastering and mixing.

Looking at the design, the box is much wider than it is deep; the small (14 liters) sealed box is designed to provide an effective baffle down to around 250Hz. It is suspended between two half cylinders that combat diffractions and function as an integral two-legged floor stand. An 8” magnesium woofer and a 1” dome tweeter divide the work between them. Smart use of DSP via a Computer Aided Calibration process during production linearizes the frequency response and allows for a controlled bass response down to 35 Hz.

Housed in one of the two legs are a 48/76-bit DSP, digital I/O, AD/DA, the same clock circuit as Grimm Audio’s CC1 master clock, and the drive electronics, encompassing two 180W Class D power amplifiers of the groundbreaking Hypex NCore type.

Housed in one of the two legs are a 48/76-bit DSP, digital I/O, AD/DA, the same clock circuit as Grimm Audio’s CC1 master clock, and the drive electronics, encompassing two 180W Class D power amplifiers of the groundbreaking Hypex NCore type.